New submission from Giampaolo Rodola' <billiej...@users.sourceforge.net>:
While trying to port pyftpdlib to Python 3.x I noticed that Python 3.0 has a serious issue since unable to print certain unicode characters on stdout: Python 3.0 (r30:67507, Dec 3 2008, 20:14:27) [MSC v.1500 32 bit (Intel)] on win 32 Type "help", "copyright", "credits" or "license" for more information. >>> print('\u20ac') # euro sign Traceback (most recent call last): File "<stdin>", line 1, in <module> File "C:\python30\lib\io.py", line 1491, in write b = encoder.encode(s) File "C:\python30\lib\encodings\cp850.py", line 19, in encode return codecs.charmap_encode(input,self.errors,encoding_map)[0] UnicodeEncodeError: 'charmap' codec can't encode character '\u20ac' in position 0: character maps to <undefined> >>> Note that the same thing works on Python 2.6 Python 2.6.1 (r261:67517, Dec 4 2008, 16:51:00) [MSC v.1500 32 bit (Intel)] on win32 Type "help", "copyright", "credits" or "license" for more information. >>> print unicode('\u20ac') \u20ac This same thing is also discussed on python ml: http://groups.google.it/group/comp.lang.python/browse_thread/thread/fb42765fe7476fc9/f560b4eaf2b0e3f4?hl=it&pli=1 ---------- components: None messages: 80650 nosy: giampaolo.rodola severity: normal status: open title: Unable to print Unicode characters in Python 3 on Windows type: crash versions: Python 3.0, Python 3.1 _______________________________________ Python tracker <rep...@bugs.python.org> <http://bugs.python.org/issue5081> _______________________________________ _______________________________________________ Python-bugs-list mailing list Unsubscribe: http://mail.python.org/mailman/options/python-bugs-list/archive%40mail-archive.com