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From: Victor Stinner <victor.stinner@gmail.com>
Date: Mon, 18 Nov 2013 16:25:32 +0100
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Xref: csiph.com comp.lang.python:59879

Why do you need to force the UTF-8 encoding? Your locale is not
correctly configured?

It's better to set PYTHONIOENCODING rather than replacing
sys.stdout/stderr at runtime.

There is an open issue to add a TextIOWrapper.set_encoding() method:
http://bugs.python.org/issue15216

Victor