From 7cc97790ce8b1041fa5dc43b90ba9d74a4f7ffae Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: y-p <yoval@gmx.com>
Date: Sun, 9 Dec 2012 15:27:40 +0200
Subject: [PATCH] ENH: try to detect encoding via sys.stdout first, then
 sys.stdin

when redirected to a file stdout is None, in ipython zmq frontends
stdin is None, and stdout (only recently in 0.14) is utf-8.

https://github.com/ipython/ipython/issues/2500
---
 pandas/core/format.py | 4 ++--
 1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)

diff --git a/pandas/core/format.py b/pandas/core/format.py
index 97aa23191adaa..67de3d7fad354 100644
--- a/pandas/core/format.py
+++ b/pandas/core/format.py
@@ -1274,11 +1274,11 @@ def detect_console_encoding():
 
     encoding = None
     try:
-        encoding=sys.stdin.encoding
+        encoding = sys.stdout.encoding or sys.stdin.encoding
     except AttributeError:
         pass
 
-    if not encoding or encoding =='ascii': # try again for something better
+    if not encoding or encoding == 'ascii': # try again for something better
         try:
             encoding = locale.getpreferredencoding()
         except Exception: