JFTR. In Python 3.4 and later I think, stdout has a surrogateescape error handler by default. Not that it helps much, because this will fall apart if you writ

JFTR. In Python 3.4 and later I think, stdout has a surrogateescape error handler by default. Not that it helps much, because this will fall apart if you write to other things. The story with this apparently is now so confusing that I am not sure what the correct way to do it on Python 3 is. From my experience most people don't care anyways. In some of my libraries the Python 3 version just refuses to work unless the encoding is utf-8 to avoid accidental failures down the line which nobody can debug.