I am not surprised since you have set it to a usually non printable character of ascii the data link escape. Perhaps you would have better luck with the extended ascii characters; but not much in there for arrows. I would probably go with chr(175) but that did not display correctly in the web based terminal either; because it looked like an underline at the top of the character block.
On Fri, Mar 11, 2016 at 10:59 PM, boB Stepp <robertvst...@gmail.com> wrote: > On Fri, Mar 11, 2016 at 9:31 PM, boB Stepp <robertvst...@gmail.com> wrote: > >> Python 3.5.1 (v3.5.1:37a07cee5969, Dec 6 2015, 01:54:25) [MSC v.1900 >> 64 bit (AMD64)] on win32 >> Type "help", "copyright", "credits" or "license" for more information. >>>>> import sys >>>>> sys.ps1 = '=>' >> =>sys.ps1 = chr(26) >> →sys.ps1 = chr(16) >> ► >> >> I personally like the last of these. My question is, will this show >> up as a black, filled-in arrowhead pointing to the right on everyone's >> email? I have yet to delve into Unicode display issues, but I have >> vague recollections that the old ASCII table values might not always >> display the same thing from one person's display to another one's. Is >> this correct? > > There looks to be the potential for problems. I tried: > > ►for i in range(256): > ... try: > ... print(str(i) + ': ' + chr(i)) > ... except UnicodeEncodeError as e: > ... print(e) > > which gave in some sections: > > 126: ~ > 127: > 'charmap' codec can't encode character '\x80' in position 5: character > maps to <undefined> > 'charmap' codec can't encode character '\x81' in position 5: character > maps to <undefined> > > So how reliable is the chr(16) character on people's displays? > > boB > _______________________________________________ > Tutor maillist - Tutor@python.org > To unsubscribe or change subscription options: > https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/tutor _______________________________________________ Tutor maillist - Tutor@python.org To unsubscribe or change subscription options: https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/tutor
