New submission from Michael Newman <michael.b.new...@gmail.com>: UnicodeEncodeError occurs for Microsoft portion of "license()". Confirmed on 3 separate Windows XP computers:
Python 3.0 (r30:67507, Dec 3 2008, 20:14:27) [MSC v.1500 32 bit (Intel)] on win32 Type "help", "copyright", "credits" or "license" for more information. >>> license() A. HISTORY OF THE SOFTWARE ========================== Python was created in the early 1990s by Guido van Rossum at Stichting Mathematisch Centrum (CWI, see http://www.cwi.nl) in the Netherlands as a successor of a language called ABC. Guido remains Python's ... skipping to end ... distribution specified by Microsoft. In particular, you must require distributors and external end users to agree to terms that protect the Microsoft Distributable Code at least as much as Microsoft's own requirements for the Distributable Code. See Microsoft's documentation (included in its developer tools and on its website at microsoft.com) for specific details. Redistribution of the Windows binary build of the Python interpreter complies with this agreement, provided that you do not: - alter any copyright, trademark or patent notice in Microsoft's Hit Return for more, or q (and Return) to quit: Distributable Code; Traceback (most recent call last): File "<stdin>", line 1, in <module> File "C:\Python30\lib\site.py", line 385, in __call__ print(self.__lines[i]) File "C:\Python30\lib\io.py", line 1491, in write b = encoder.encode(s) File "C:\Python30\lib\encodings\cp437.py", line 19, in encode return codecs.charmap_encode(input,self.errors,encoding_map)[0] UnicodeEncodeError: 'charmap' codec can't encode character '\u2019' in position 15: character maps to <undefined> ---------- components: Windows messages: 78057 nosy: mnewman severity: normal status: open title: UnicodeEncodeError in license() type: crash versions: Python 3.0 _______________________________________ Python tracker <rep...@bugs.python.org> <http://bugs.python.org/issue4700> _______________________________________ _______________________________________________ Python-bugs-list mailing list Unsubscribe: http://mail.python.org/mailman/options/python-bugs-list/archive%40mail-archive.com