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    <p>In the beginning of my scripts in Python 2.6, I would like to write my name as it is spelled, i.e. "Joël" (with trema on e). So I write <code>__author__ = u'Joël'</code>, and I can retrieve it by a simple <code>print __author__</code>.</p> <p>Problem appears with the built-in <code>help()</code> function, as I get an error message:</p> <pre><code>UnicodeEncodeError: 'ascii' codec can't encode character u'\xeb' in position 2: ordinal not in range(128) </code></pre> <p>I cannot upgrade to Python 3.x, and I find this function very helpful (and it will surely be for those who will get my scripts). I also did not forget to encode the files in UTF-8, and to specify it in the scripts by adding this:</p> <pre><code># -*- coding: utf-8 -*- </code></pre> <p>Any idea on where this comes from?</p> <p>Thanks in advance for your answers.</p> <hr> <p>EDIT Looking to the "Dive Into Python" book again, I found out how to have a correct render on my machine, see <a href="http://www.diveintopython.org/xml_processing/unicode.html" rel="nofollow">http://www.diveintopython.org/xml_processing/unicode.html</a>.</p> <p>The idea is that, my default encoding for Python was ASCII, and this did prevent help() to make a correct output. What I did is to add a script named like <code>sitecustomize.py</code> in <code>{pythondir}\Lib\site-packages</code>, setting the default encoding:</p> <pre><code>import sys sys.setdefaultencoding('iso-8859-1') </code></pre> <p>And now, with an input string written like <code>u'Joël'</code>, I get a correct output through call of help().</p> <p>Problem is, I'm quite sure that this will break on other's computers. Any idea how I could handle this?</p>
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