On Mon, Feb 14, 2011 at 02:02:11PM +0000, Philipp Kern wrote:
> On 2011-02-14, Klaus Ethgen <kl...@ethgen.de> wrote:
> > ~> LC_CTYPE=en_GB.utf-8 perl -e 'print "\x{00a3}\n";'
> > ~> LC_CTYPE=en_GB.utf-8 perl -e 'print "\x{00a3}\n";' | cat
> > Both gives the same result, a '£' sign as expected.
>
> And what's the value in that demonstration? Yes, you can treat UTF8 like a
> bytestream. And the thread was about the problems that can arise of this.
Er, and tell me where exactly it makes sense to allow one encoding but not
another for a "bytestream"?
It appears that Python has a nasty bug where it ignores the encoding if
isatty(stdout) returns 0. So let's go fixing or reporting that rather than
arguing about it.
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