> On 13 Nov 2022, at 14:52, Jessica Smith <12jessicasmit...@gmail.com> wrote: > > Consider the following code ran in Powershell or cmd.exe: > > $ python -c "print('└')" > └ > > $ python -c "print('└')" > test_file.txt > Traceback (most recent call last): > File "<string>", line 1, in <module> > File "C:\Program Files\Python38\lib\encodings\cp1252.py", line 19, in encode > return codecs.charmap_encode(input,self.errors,encoding_table)[0] > UnicodeEncodeError: 'charmap' codec can't encode character '\u2514' in > position 0: character maps to <undefined> > > Is this a known limitation of Windows + Unicode? I understand that > using -x utf8 would fix this, or modifying various environment > variables. But is this expected for a standard Python installation on > Windows?
Your other thread has a reply that explained this. It is a problem with windows and character sets. You have to set things up to allow Unicode to work. Barry > > Jessica > -- > https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list -- https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list