Unicode Problem

[Robert Simmons]

What is the output from print(sys.stdout.encoding) on your system?
And, can you explain how to change that on mine so that it is UTF-8?
Mine is a default fresh install, btw.

On Thu, Jan 29, 2015 at 2:29 AM, Roland Smith <rsmith at xs4all.nl> wrote:
> On Thu, Jan 29, 2015 at 01:38:21AM -0500, Robert Simmons wrote:
>> I'm having a unicode problem on FreeBSD lang/python34 that does not
>> appear on MacOS X. I've condensed the problem to one single line to
>> enter in the interpreter:
>>
>> FreeBSD:
>> Python 3.4.2 (default, Jan 28 2015, 22:23:57)
>> [GCC 4.2.1 Compatible FreeBSD Clang 3.4.1 (tags/RELEASE_34/dot1-final
>> 208032)] on freebsd10
>> Type "help", "copyright", "credits" or "license" for more information.
>> >>> b'\xc3\xa2'.decode('utf-8')
>> '\xe2'
>>
>> MacOS X:
>> Python 3.4.2 (default, Oct 19 2014, 17:55:38)
>> [GCC 4.2.1 Compatible Apple LLVM 6.0 (clang-600.0.54)] on darwin
>> Type "help", "copyright", "credits" or "license" for more information.
>> >>> b'\xc3\xa2'.decode('utf-8')
>> 'â'
>>
>> Why is Python on FreeBSD incorrectly decoding this?
>
> Works fine here (FreeBSD 10.1-STABLE #0 r276653 amd64):
>
>     Python 3.4.2 (default, Nov  4 2014, 19:34:48)
>     [GCC 4.2.1 Compatible FreeBSD Clang 3.4.1 (tags/RELEASE_34/dot1-final 208032)] on freebsd10
>     Type "help", "copyright", "credits" or "license" for more information.
>     >>> b'\xc3\xa2'.decode('utf-8')
>     'â'
>
>
> Roland
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