This is not a bug in Python, but in the individual scripts. Scripts should not rely on being able to write Unicode strings to stdout. Instead, they need to encode strings explicitly, according to whatever protocol is defined for whatever file they send the data to. In absence of a more specific guidance from the user (or the protocol that they follow), they should use locale.getpreferredencoding().
I propose to close this as "won't fix". Python 3 has resolved this issue in a different way, explicitly distinguishing between text files (which get encoded in the locale's encoding unless specified differently), and binary files (which don't support writing Unicode to them). -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-bugs-dist-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org
