Re: Windows XP unicode and escape sequences

2007-12-19 Thread Martin v. Löwis
> This brings up another question. If I run some Python code that > starts off with 'os.system('cp869')' so it will change to the correct > code page, then when it starts printing the Greek characters it > breaks. But run the same Python code again and it works fine. Is > there another way to do

Re: Windows XP unicode and escape sequences

2007-12-16 Thread Ross Ridge
<[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >This brings up another question. If I run some Python code that starts >off with 'os.system('cp869')' so it will change to the correct code page, >then when it starts printing the Greek characters it breaks. But run >the same Python code again and it works fine. That'

Re: Windows XP unicode and escape sequences

2007-12-16 Thread MonkeeSage
On Dec 16, 5:28 pm, <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Thank you John and Tim. > > With your help I found that the XP console code page is set up for 'cp437' > and with a little bit of browsing I found that 869 is the code page for > Modern Greek. After changing it to 869 that did the trick! Thanks v

Re: Windows XP unicode and escape sequences

2007-12-14 Thread Tim Roberts
<[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >I mainly work on OS X, but thought I'd experiment with some Python code on XP. > The >problem is I can't seem to get these things to work at all. > >First of all, I'd like to use Greek letters in the command prompt window, so I >was going to >use unicode to do this.

Re: Windows XP unicode and escape sequences

2007-12-13 Thread John Roth
On Dec 12, 2:51 pm, <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I mainly work on OS X, but thought I'd experiment with some Python code on > XP. The > problem is I can't seem to get these things to work at all. > > First of all, I'd like to use Greek letters in the command prompt window, so > I was going to >

Windows XP unicode and escape sequences

2007-12-12 Thread jyoung79
I mainly work on OS X, but thought I'd experiment with some Python code on XP. The problem is I can't seem to get these things to work at all. First of all, I'd like to use Greek letters in the command prompt window, so I was going to use unicode to do this. But in the command prompt, the uni