On Mon, Aug 4, 2014 at 2:17 AM, Glenn Linderman <v+pyt...@g.nevcal.com> wrote: > For this OP problem, it is mostly a matter of finding a fixed-width font > that supports the box drawing characters and the Polish characters that are > desired. Lucida Console has a fair repertoire, and Consolas has a fair > repertoire, in the fixed-width font arena. There may be others, documented > on Polish language web sites that I wouldn't know about, and I don't know > enough Polish to be sure those I mentioned suffice.
Not really. We haven’t had to play the “custom fonts for our language” game for quite some time. Consolas and Lucida Console work just fine for Polish (though Consolas sometimes hiccups on capital characters in some environments). The characters are: ĄĆĘŁÓŃŚŹŻ ąćęłóńśźż Most fonts — especially the ones included with modern OSes — support all 18 of them. So, this is a non-issue. The real issue is Windows being an idiot when it comes to CLI, which is oh so surprising to everyone who had to work with it — considering the choice of the outdated and quirky cmd.exe interpreter, or PowerShell, which has ultra-verbose human-unfriendly commands and works in the same cmd.exe window (there is a thing named PowerShell ISE, which circumvents cmd.exe; I have no idea whether all the Unicode issues apply to that, too) -- Chris “Kwpolska” Warrick <http://chriswarrick.com/> PGP: 5EAAEA16 stop html mail | always bottom-post | only UTF-8 makes sense -- https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list