UnicodeDecodeError when redirecting to file

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Published on 2010-12-28T11:24:45Z Indexed on 2010/12/28 12:53 UTC
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Hi,

I run this snippet twice, in the ubuntu terminal, (encoding set to utf-8) once with ./test.py and then with ./test.py >out.txt:

uni = u"\u001A\u0BC3\u1451\U0001D10C"
print uni

Without redirection it prints garbage. With redirection I get a UnicodeDecodeError. Can someone explain why I get the error only in the second case, or even better give a detailed explanation of what's going on behind the curtain in both cases?

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