I took to using
chcp 65001
This puts cmd.exe into unicode mode.
Of course the python 3.6 make this uneccesary i understand.
Barry
> On 24 Mar 2017, at 15:41, Ryan Gonzalez <[email protected]> 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.)
>
> The workaround was to do:
>
>
> print(mystring.encode(sys.stdout.encoding,
> errors='replace).decode(sys.stdout.encoding))
>
>
> Not fun, especially since this was *just* a debug print.
>
> The proposal: why not add an 'errors' argument to print? That way, I could've
> just done:
>
>
> print(mystring, errors='replace')
>
>
> without having to worry about it crashing.
>
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