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On 06/03/2014 12:12 AM, wxjmfauth@gmail.com wrote:
> I was myself really suprised to fall on such a case and
> after thinking no, such cases may logically happen.

Putting in this comment not for JMF but for poor souls who find this
thread on a search and are led astray by jmf's trolling.

Either it was your code or an issue with the Windows console that caused
the exception.  When you try to print out unicode strings, Python must
convert them to the character encoding of the terminal in order to print
them out.  On sane systems this is UTF-8.  On Windows it could be
anything.  Do you want Python to fail silently or do you want to fail
with a useful message, with the option of specifying the exact behavior
you want (replace unrepresentable characters with spaces, question
marks, etc)?

Seems like jmf, though being a self-proclaimed unicode expert,
continually confusing unicode with encoding schemes.

> 
> It's not important. I'm no more writing Py apps, only
> considering software through an unicode eye.

Please just stop posting to this list.

thanks.