New submission from Segev Finer <segev...@gmail.com>: Found by trying to use pip: https://github.com/pypa/pip/issues/5665.
This is likely affected by the console code page. Python version: 2.7.15 64 bit OS: Windows 10.0.17134.165 x64 The console locale is set to cp872. The console font is consolas. Apparently, msvcrt does charset conversion when writing to its file descriptors based on the set locale! and it's even special cased to handle the OEM console code page (You can see this in crt/src/write.c:_write_nolock if you have MSVC 2008). When the "C" locale is set, no conversion is done. Python encodes to the OEM code page, and it passes through to the console unscathed. But once you do setlocale than the CRT expects you to use the ANSI code page, but Python will be encoding to the OEM code page which will result in this error from fwrite. file.encoding in Python 2 is also not settable directly from Python (C API only), it's only used for stdio and set internally on startup: Python/pythonrun.c:349-378. I found this describing this: Why printf can display non-ASCII characters when āCā locale is used?. #!/usr/bin/env python2 from __future__ import print_function import locale print(u' |\u2588') # Works locale.setlocale(locale.LC_ALL, '') print(u' |\u2588') # IOError: [Errno 42] Illegal byte sequence ---------- components: Windows messages: 322683 nosy: Segev Finer, paul.moore, steve.dower, tim.golden, zach.ware priority: normal severity: normal status: open title: Python 2 mishandles console code page after setlocale type: behavior versions: Python 2.7 _______________________________________ Python tracker <rep...@bugs.python.org> <https://bugs.python.org/issue34283> _______________________________________ _______________________________________________ Python-bugs-list mailing list Unsubscribe: https://mail.python.org/mailman/options/python-bugs-list/archive%40mail-archive.com