On 15/03/16 19:51, Albert-Jan Roskam wrote: > So windows uses the following (Western locales): > console: cp437 (OEM codepage) > "bytes": cp1252 (ANSI codepage) > unicode: utf-16-le (is 'mbcs' equivalent to utf-16-*?) > > > Sheesh, so much room for errors. Why not everything utf-8, like in linux? > Is cmd.exe that impopular that Microsoft does not replace it with something > better?
It's replaced by Powershell. It's just that not many people use Powershell. Familiarity beats superiority. Whether Powershell actually handles display of text any better is another question. I don;t know the answer to that and am too lazy to fire up my Windows box to find out! :-( > in saying that the use of codepages (with stupid differences such as latin-1 > vs cp1252 as a bonus) > are designed to hamper cross-platform compatibility (and force people to > stick with windows)? I think that's probably being unfair on Microsoft. It is mainly just historical I think. -- Alan G Author of the Learn to Program web site http://www.alan-g.me.uk/ http://www.amazon.com/author/alan_gauld Follow my photo-blog on Flickr at: http://www.flickr.com/photos/alangauldphotos _______________________________________________ Tutor maillist - Tutor@python.org To unsubscribe or change subscription options: https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/tutor
