On Dec 12, 2:51 pm, <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> I mainly work on OS X, but thought I'd experiment with some Python code on
> XP. The
> problem is I can't seem to get these things to work at all.
>
> First of all, I'd like to use Greek letters in the command prompt window, so
> I was going to
> use unicode to do this. But in the command prompt, the unicode characters
> are displaying
> as strange looking characters. I tried installing the 'Bitstream Vera Sans
> Mono' font in hopes
> it had all the characters I needed but this didn't seem to work either. Is
> the problem the font?
> And if so, is there a certain font that has unicode '03B1', etc? Here's some
> code I tried:
>
> v = u'\u03B1\u03B2\u03B3'.encode('utf-8')
> print v #just displays squares
You've got two problems. First, you don't need to encode it; if the
command prompt window displayed your output after encoding it would
display the multi-byte form of your characters. You should just send
it a unicode object.
Second, check the .encoding attribute of the sys.stdout object.
Therein lies enlightenment about what the command prompt window will
accept.
No info on your other problem.
John Roth
>
> If anyone has any thoughts, I'd love to hear them.
>
> Thanks!
>
> Jay
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