Comment 14 for bug 339642

Confirming. "UTF-8" in all cases, IPython prints screwed up "unicode" strings and this renders the program almost unusable.

Anyone got ideas about how to test this? I guess IPython developers possess a bit more knowledge of the immense innards of the package than reporters of the bug do, so users could expect at least some guidelines for writing tests, could they?

Maybe we should allow to tune bug-related behaviour in user settings until the bug is finally fixed? This may also help with testing.