the stupid encoding problem to stdout

[Sérgio Monteiro Basto]

Ben Finney wrote:

> Sérgio Monteiro Basto <sergiomb at sapo.pt> writes:
> 
>> ./test.py
>> moçambique
>> moçambique
> 
> In this case your terminal is reporting its encoding to Python, and it's
> capable of taking the UTF-8 data that you send to it in both cases.
> 
>> ./test.py > output.txt
>> Traceback (most recent call last):
>>   File "./test.py", line 5, in <module>
>>     print u
>> UnicodeEncodeError: 'ascii' codec can't encode character
>> u'\xe7' in position 2: ordinal not in range(128)
> 
> In this case your shell has no preference for the encoding (since you're
> redirecting output to a file).
> 

How I say to python that I want that write in utf-8 to files ? 


> In the first print statement you specify the encoding UTF-8, which is
> capable of encoding the characters.
> 
> In the second print statement you haven't specified any encoding, so the
> default ASCII encoding is used.
> 
> 
> Moral of the tale: Make sure an encoding is specified whenever data
> steps between bytes and characters.
> 
>> Don't seems logic, when send things to a file the beaviour change.
> 
> They're different files, which have been opened with different
> encodings. If you want a different encoding, you need to specify that.
>