UnicodeEncodeError when piping stdout, but not when printing directly to the console

[Adam Funk]

(I'm using Python 2.7.2+ on Ubuntu.)

When I'm running my program in an xterm, the print command with an
argument containing unicode works fine (it correctly detects my UTF-8
environment).  But when I run it with a pipe or redirect to a file (|
or >), unicode strings fail with the following (for example):

UnicodeEncodeError: 'ascii' codec can't encode character u'\u0107' in position 21: ordinal not in range(128)

How can I force python (preferably within my python program, rather
than having to set something externally) to treat stdout as UTF-8?


Thanks,
Adam


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