On Fri, Mar 24, 2017 at 10:41:58AM -0500, Ryan Gonzalez wrote: > Recently, I was working on a Windows GUI application that ends up running > ffmpeg, and I wanted to see the command that was being run. However, the > file name had a Unicode character in it (it's a Sawano song), and when I > tried to print it to the console, it crashed during the encode/decode. (The > encoding used in cmd doesn't support Unicode characters.)
*Crash* crash, or just an exception? If it crashed the interpreter, you ought to report that as a bug. > The workaround was to do: > > > print(mystring.encode(sys.stdout.encoding, > errors='replace).decode(sys.stdout.encoding)) I think that this would be both simpler and more informative: print(ascii(mystring)) -- Steve _______________________________________________ Python-ideas mailing list Python-ideas@python.org https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-ideas Code of Conduct: http://python.org/psf/codeofconduct/
