python-mode, c-c c-c and unicode in output buffer

[sandro dentella]

Hi,

  this simple python code:  print u'è'  works outside emacs but raises
error inside emacs:

sandro@bluff:~$ cat /tmp/u.py
# coding: utf-8
print u'è'

sandro@bluff:~$ python /tmp/u.py
è

  So I ask here, instead of asking in a python group...
  the buffer(s) are all utf-8 encoded. the error that python raises
trying to write to the buffer is:

Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "<stdin>", line 2, in <module>
UnicodeEncodeError: 'ascii' codec can't encode character u'\xe8' in
position 0: ordinal not in range(128)

  It seems python believes it needs to encode in ascii, but emacs
output buffer has the 'u' in the left lower corner...


Thanks in advance
sandro
*:-)