bash error stream redirection issue

[Ewaryst Schulz]

I typed 'xclip' in a terminal on ubuntu 11.10 but xclip was not installed, so the terminal gives me "... sudo apt-get install xclip" on stderr, but when I try 'xclip &> /tmp/out' a command-not-found crash message is written to the file at /tmp/out not the text from stderr

command-not-found version: 0.2.44:
terminal is using bash

[Zygmunt Krynicki (zyga)]

This is caused by python sys.stdout and sys.stderr to revert to ASCI encoding when the streams are redirected, thus breaking on unicode conversion to UTF-8