On 2014.08.03 18:08, Chris Angelico wrote: > The best way to do it is to use the Unicode codepage, but cmd.exe just > plain has issues. There are underlying Windows APIs for displaying > text that have problems with astral characters (I think that's what it > is), so ultimately, you're largely stuck. That is not quite true. The terminal has these issues, not the shell. Using cp65001 does make Unicode in a Windows terminal possible, but using a better terminal[1] makes it almost perfect (my experience has been that input can be difficult, but output works well). I personally have used an IRC bot written in Python with logging output containing Unicode characters that display just fine (both locally and over SSH).
[1] I recommend ConEmu: https://code.google.com/p/conemu-maximus5/ -- https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
