Tim Roberts <t...@probo.com> writes: > The Windows console shell is an 8-bit entity.
That's not true. Well, it's only true A) of programs that use 8-bit I/O instead of Unicode (which unfortunately happens to include Python, and B) when a bitmap font (i.e. Terminal) is used instead of a truetype font. Note that the bitmap font can't be changed with chcp either. > Using msvcrt.getchw does not convert the console to a Unicode > entity. It merely means the characters you DO get are > represented in Unicode. Also not true. There are certainly problems with getwch, but any unicode character that can actually be entered by a real keyboard key, even on custom layouts that contain characters not in the codepage, will work fine. The limitation is the keyboard layout, not the codepage. Even for pasted (or dropped) text, it will synthesize keyboard events it can handle if a key exists for the character... otherwise, it simulates alt-NNNN events that getwch cannot handle. If you choose, for example, a Greek keyboard layout, even Latin letters (definitely ASCII characters) can't be pasted to a getwch loop. _______________________________________________ python-win32 mailing list python-win32@python.org https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-win32