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print() encodes characters to native system encoding #58461
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| BPO | 14253 |
|---|---|
| Nosy | @loewis, @pitrou, @ezio-melotti |
| Superseder |
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assignee = None
closed_at = <Date 2012-03-11.18:18:17.118>
created_at = <Date 2012-03-11.16:39:43.676>
labels = ['type-bug', 'expert-unicode']
title = 'print() encodes characters to native system encoding'
updated_at = <Date 2012-03-11.18:18:17.115>
user = 'https://bugs.python.org/RobertSjblom'bugs.python.org fields:
activity = <Date 2012-03-11.18:18:17.115>
actor = 'loewis'
assignee = 'none'
closed = True
closed_date = <Date 2012-03-11.18:18:17.118>
closer = 'loewis'
components = ['Unicode']
creation = <Date 2012-03-11.16:39:43.676>
creator = 'Robert.Sj\xc3\xb6blom'
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issue_num = 14253
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priority = 'normal'
resolution = 'duplicate'
stage = None
status = 'closed'
superseder = '1602'
type = 'behavior'
url = 'https://bugs.python.org/issue14253'
versions = ['Python 3.3']
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RobertSjblom commentedon Mar 11, 2012
I'm on a cp932-encoded system. When I read in a cp1252-file, it's read into memory properly, but when printing it, Python tries to encode the output to cp932. Here's the relevant code:
Shouldn't the output be in unicode?
pitrou commentedon Mar 11, 2012
Probably a duplicate of bpo-1602.
loewis commentedon Mar 11, 2012
Robert: this is not a bug. Python's IO stack has the fundamental assumption that streams are byte-oriented. So the "shouldn't be the output in Unicode" is not a possible solution, since Unicode cannot work on a byte stream.
As a feature request, this is indeed a duplicate of 1602.