$ python -c 'import sys, precs, locale; print sys.stdout.encoding; sys.stdout = precs.getwriter(locale.getpreferredencoding())(sys.stdout); line = u"u0411n"; print type(line), len(line); sys.stdout.write(line); print line' UTF-8 <type 'unipre'> 2 Б Б $ python -c 'import sys, precs, locale; print sys.stdout.encoding; sys.stdout = precs.getwriter(locale.getpreferredencoding())(sys.stdout); line = u"u0411n"; print type(line), len(line); sys.stdout.write(line); print line' | cat None <type 'unipre'> 2 Б Б



