Terry Reedy wrote:
If the terminal expects cp437 then displaying utf-8 might give some
problems.
My screen displays whatever Windows tells the graphics card to tell
the screen to display. In OpenOffice, I can select a unicode font
that displays at least everything in the BasicMultilingualPlane (BMP).
It would appear that the Windows port of Python is probably just not
forcing the Win32 console into the Unicode mode or using the Unicode
APIs. (If this holds true, it could be a leftover from the Windows
95/98/ME days, I suppose...)
<http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Win32_console>
As a workaround - for the time being - you might want to try something
similar as described in the thread "Changing the (codec) error handler
for the stdout/stderr streams in Python 3.0".
The approach described in there will not let you print characters
outside the codepage 437 repertoaire - any such characters will still
need to be substituted with something else - but at least this
substitution should happen automatically; i.e. you can keep using the
normal print() function the normal way - even for the fancier
characters - and your program will no longer crash.
It would be nice to see proper Unicode Win32 console support in Python,
of course, if at all possible.
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