Yet another unicode WTF

[Ben Finney]

Ron Garret <rNOSPAMon at flownet.com> writes:

> Python 2.6.2 on OS X 10.5.7:
> 
> [ron at mickey:~]$ echo $LANG
> en_US.UTF-8
> [ron at mickey:~]$ cat frob.py 
> #!/usr/bin/env python
> print u'\u03BB'
> 
> [ron at mickey:~]$ ./frob.py 
> ª
> [ron at mickey:~]$ ./frob.py > foo
> Traceback (most recent call last):
>   File "./frob.py", line 2, in <module>
>     print u'\u03BB'
> UnicodeEncodeError: 'ascii' codec can't encode character u'\u03bb' in 
> position 0: ordinal not in range(128)

I get the same behaviour on Debian GNU/Linux, python 2.5.2. It's
certainly not desirable; the terminal, the shell, and the filesystem are
all using UTF-8 so it should work fine.

You might be best advised to report this as a bug to the Python bug
tracker <URL:http://bugs.python.org/>.

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