Message 92023 - Python tracker
I don't really understand because your example, umlaut3x.py, works correctly on my computer (py3k, ubunty jaunty). > The point is, currently, it is broken if the user > does not use an utf-8 environment. So the problem is that the charset is hardcoded to utf8. You would like to be able to change that. Or better, than Python guess your terminal charset. Right?