UnicodeEncodeError when using python from ssh

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I made a small application that prints unicode special characters(i.e. superscript, subscript...). When it runs locally there are no problems but when it runs in a ssh session I always get a UnicodeEncodeError. Specifically: UnicodeEncodeError 'ascii' can't encode characters in position 0-1: ordinal not in range(128) I tried different ssh clients, computers and double checked the sessions encoding but the result is the same. This is really weird. Why does this happen? Is this really related to ssh?

Most likely because Python cannot determine the terminal encoding, and falls back to ASCII. See the docs.python.org/3/howto/unicode.html python Unicode Howto. — Martijn Pieters
– Martijn Pieters, Commented Jun 28, 2013 at 22:25
Does python your_script.py | cat work locally? Try PYTHONIOENCODING=utf-8 python your_script.py | cat. — jfs
– jfs, Commented Jun 28, 2013 at 22:35
@J.F.Sebastian Yes, is working. Even without that enviroment variable set. — Rnhmjoj
– Rnhmjoj, Commented Jun 28, 2013 at 22:38
@J.F.Sebastian With PYTHONIOENCODING=utf-8 it also work in ssh. Thanks. — Rnhmjoj
– Rnhmjoj, Commented Jun 28, 2013 at 22:46

Rizky Hardy · Accepted Answer · 2013-06-28 22:53:00Z

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The problem might be not your Python code, check your ssh ENV. LANG should be en_US.UTF-8 (containing UTF-8) not ASCII

answered Jun 28, 2013 at 22:53

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Rnhmjoj Over a year ago

LANG is set to utf-8. Setting PYTHONIOENCODING=utf-8 will solve the issue but the strange thing is that sys.getdefaultencoding() already return utf-8. So this shouldn't change anything.

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