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

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Adam Funk wrote:

> On 2012-01-04, Peter Otten wrote:
> 
>> Adam Funk wrote:
> 
>>> How can I force python (preferably within my python program, rather
>>> than having to set something externally) to treat stdout as UTF-8?
>>
>>
>> $ cat force_utf8.py
>> # -*- coding: utf-8 -*-
>> import sys
>>
>> if sys.stdout.encoding is None:
>>     import codecs
>>     writer = codecs.getwriter("utf-8")
>>     sys.stdout = writer(sys.stdout)
>>
>> print u"Ähnlich üblich nötig"
> 
> That's great, thanks!
> 
> I guess issues like this will magically go away when I eventually move
> to Python 3?

Not "magically", but UTF-8 has become the default encoding...

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UnicodeEncodeError when piping stdout, but not when printing directly to the console Adam Funk <a24061@ducksburg.com> - 2012-01-04 21:15 +0000
  Re: UnicodeEncodeError when piping stdout, but not when printing directly to the console Peter Otten <__peter__@web.de> - 2012-01-04 22:49 +0100
    Re: UnicodeEncodeError when piping stdout, but not when printing directly to the console Adam Funk <a24061@ducksburg.com> - 2012-01-06 09:12 +0000
      Re: UnicodeEncodeError when piping stdout, but not when printing directly to the console Peter Otten <__peter__@web.de> - 2012-01-06 10:34 +0100
        Re: UnicodeEncodeError when piping stdout, but not when printing directly to the console Adam Funk <a24061@ducksburg.com> - 2012-01-06 14:22 +0000

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