session. Am I doing something wrong?
luked@sor ~ $ echo $LANG
en_AU.UTF-8
luked@sor ~ $ python
Python 2.3.4 (#1, Aug 12 2004, 17:23:54)
[GCC 3.4.1 (Gentoo Linux 3.4.1, ssp-3.4-2, pie-8.7.6.3)] on linux2
Type "help", "copyright", "credits" or "license" for more information.
import sys
print sys.getdefaultencoding() utf-8 u'π' # embedded greek letter 'pi' (possibly mangled by google groups news client), should return u'\u03c0'
u'\xcf\x80' u'\u03c0'.encode() '\xcf\x80'