diff --git a/2.7/alpine3.4/Dockerfile b/2.7/alpine3.4/Dockerfile
index dea640830..289b61659 100644
--- a/2.7/alpine3.4/Dockerfile
+++ b/2.7/alpine3.4/Dockerfile
@@ -6,6 +6,8 @@ ENV PATH /usr/local/bin:$PATH
 # http://bugs.python.org/issue19846
 # > At the moment, setting "LANG=C" on a Linux system *fundamentally breaks Python 3*, and that's not OK.
 ENV LANG C.UTF-8
+# https://github.com/docker-library/python/issues/147
+ENV PYTHONIOENCODING UTF-8
 
 # install ca-certificates so that HTTPS works consistently
 # the other runtime dependencies for Python are installed later
diff --git a/2.7/alpine3.6/Dockerfile b/2.7/alpine3.6/Dockerfile
index d29950c68..5ea78ae9e 100644
--- a/2.7/alpine3.6/Dockerfile
+++ b/2.7/alpine3.6/Dockerfile
@@ -6,6 +6,8 @@ ENV PATH /usr/local/bin:$PATH
 # http://bugs.python.org/issue19846
 # > At the moment, setting "LANG=C" on a Linux system *fundamentally breaks Python 3*, and that's not OK.
 ENV LANG C.UTF-8
+# https://github.com/docker-library/python/issues/147
+ENV PYTHONIOENCODING UTF-8
 
 # install ca-certificates so that HTTPS works consistently
 # the other runtime dependencies for Python are installed later
diff --git a/2.7/alpine3.7/Dockerfile b/2.7/alpine3.7/Dockerfile
index b70a5c2bb..51db090fe 100644
--- a/2.7/alpine3.7/Dockerfile
+++ b/2.7/alpine3.7/Dockerfile
@@ -6,6 +6,8 @@ ENV PATH /usr/local/bin:$PATH
 # http://bugs.python.org/issue19846
 # > At the moment, setting "LANG=C" on a Linux system *fundamentally breaks Python 3*, and that's not OK.
 ENV LANG C.UTF-8
+# https://github.com/docker-library/python/issues/147
+ENV PYTHONIOENCODING UTF-8
 
 # install ca-certificates so that HTTPS works consistently
 # the other runtime dependencies for Python are installed later
diff --git a/2.7/jessie/Dockerfile b/2.7/jessie/Dockerfile
index 931a9dcf4..59e3b4486 100644
--- a/2.7/jessie/Dockerfile
+++ b/2.7/jessie/Dockerfile
@@ -6,6 +6,8 @@ ENV PATH /usr/local/bin:$PATH
 # http://bugs.python.org/issue19846
 # > At the moment, setting "LANG=C" on a Linux system *fundamentally breaks Python 3*, and that's not OK.
 ENV LANG C.UTF-8
+# https://github.com/docker-library/python/issues/147
+ENV PYTHONIOENCODING UTF-8
 
 # runtime dependencies
 RUN apt-get update && apt-get install -y --no-install-recommends \
diff --git a/2.7/jessie/slim/Dockerfile b/2.7/jessie/slim/Dockerfile
index da399313b..3a10d57a7 100644
--- a/2.7/jessie/slim/Dockerfile
+++ b/2.7/jessie/slim/Dockerfile
@@ -6,6 +6,8 @@ ENV PATH /usr/local/bin:$PATH
 # http://bugs.python.org/issue19846
 # > At the moment, setting "LANG=C" on a Linux system *fundamentally breaks Python 3*, and that's not OK.
 ENV LANG C.UTF-8
+# https://github.com/docker-library/python/issues/147
+ENV PYTHONIOENCODING UTF-8
 
 # runtime dependencies
 RUN apt-get update && apt-get install -y --no-install-recommends \
diff --git a/2.7/stretch/Dockerfile b/2.7/stretch/Dockerfile
index ee480c3dc..e85ceee87 100644
--- a/2.7/stretch/Dockerfile
+++ b/2.7/stretch/Dockerfile
@@ -6,6 +6,8 @@ ENV PATH /usr/local/bin:$PATH
 # http://bugs.python.org/issue19846
 # > At the moment, setting "LANG=C" on a Linux system *fundamentally breaks Python 3*, and that's not OK.
 ENV LANG C.UTF-8
+# https://github.com/docker-library/python/issues/147
+ENV PYTHONIOENCODING UTF-8
 
 # runtime dependencies
 RUN apt-get update && apt-get install -y --no-install-recommends \
diff --git a/2.7/stretch/slim/Dockerfile b/2.7/stretch/slim/Dockerfile
index a5ca56531..13439988c 100644
--- a/2.7/stretch/slim/Dockerfile
+++ b/2.7/stretch/slim/Dockerfile
@@ -6,6 +6,8 @@ ENV PATH /usr/local/bin:$PATH
 # http://bugs.python.org/issue19846
 # > At the moment, setting "LANG=C" on a Linux system *fundamentally breaks Python 3*, and that's not OK.
 ENV LANG C.UTF-8
+# https://github.com/docker-library/python/issues/147
+ENV PYTHONIOENCODING UTF-8
 
 # runtime dependencies
 RUN apt-get update && apt-get install -y --no-install-recommends \
diff --git a/2.7/wheezy/Dockerfile b/2.7/wheezy/Dockerfile
index 9515ddf60..eb92bcd28 100644
--- a/2.7/wheezy/Dockerfile
+++ b/2.7/wheezy/Dockerfile
@@ -6,6 +6,8 @@ ENV PATH /usr/local/bin:$PATH
 # http://bugs.python.org/issue19846
 # > At the moment, setting "LANG=C" on a Linux system *fundamentally breaks Python 3*, and that's not OK.
 ENV LANG C.UTF-8
+# https://github.com/docker-library/python/issues/147
+ENV PYTHONIOENCODING UTF-8
 
 # runtime dependencies
 RUN apt-get update && apt-get install -y --no-install-recommends \