Re: [Python-markdown-discuss] -e utf-8

[Dave P. <dav...@gm...>]

On 10 December 2012 13:49, Brian Neal <bg...@gm...> wrote:
>
> On Mon, Dec 10, 2012 at 1:34 AM, Dave Pawson <dav...@gm...> wrote:
>>
>> Not that I was redirecting output to the output file? (The commented out
>> line)
>> This created the problem. It would seem to be a difference between
>> redirection and
>> cp and >>
>> The replacement line solves that problem.
>> It would seem redirected output is unable to utilise an appropriate
>> character set.
>
>
> I've run into this before. It isn't a problem with Markdown, more of an
> issue with Python 2.7 and redirection to a pipe. See
>
> http://stackoverflow.com/questions/4545661/unicodedecodeerror-when-redirecting-to-file
>
> In particular the answer by Mark Tolonen has helped me in the past.

"Python 3 defaults to 'utf8', but based on the OP's sample, he's using
Python 2.X, which defaults to 'ascii'. – Mark Tolonen Jan 5 '11 at
18:49"

That explains it.  Thanks Brian. Nice to know why.

I'm on Fedora, which uses Python heavily for scripts, so I'm reluctant
to install 3 ahead of Fedora.
My solution works which is enough for me.

regards




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