[Python-Dev] Proposal: new environment variable PYTHONSTDOUTENCODING (original) (raw)

Oleg Broytmann phd at phd.pp.ru
Tue May 20 12:48:23 CEST 2008

On Tue, May 20, 2008 at 10:22:37AM +0200, "Martin v. L?wis" wrote:

I'd like to propose a new environment variable PYTHONSTDOUTENCODING. This is meant to solve various problems that people had with Python not detecting their terminal encoding correctly; it would override any detection that Python would use for determining the encoding of stdout (and stdin - but that's less relevant in 2.x).

Is it to override locale settings in case the user wants a different encoding? for such cases as redirected stdout, or windows console (which has an "OEM" encoding that differs from the locale encoding)?

Naming contest: it probably would be the longest of the PYTHON* variables. I would not want to call it PYTHONENCODING, or PYTHONSTDENCODING, though, because people might infer that it affects sys.getdefaultencoding(), which it shouldn't.

PYTHONIOENCODING?

Oleg.

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