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Re: Printing UTF-8 mail to terminal

From	"Loris Bennett" <loris.bennett@fu-berlin.de>
Newsgroups	comp.lang.python
Subject	Re: Printing UTF-8 mail to terminal
Date	2024-11-01 07:52 +0100
Organization	FUB-IT, Freie Universität Berlin
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Left Right <olegsivokon@gmail.com> writes:

> There's quite a lot of misuse of terminology around terminal / console
> / shell.  Please, correct me if I'm wrong, but it looks like you are
> printing that on MS Windows, right?  MS Windows doesn't have or use
> terminals (that's more of a Unix-related concept). And, by "terminal"
> I mean terminal emulator (i.e. a program that emulates the behavior of
> a physical terminal). You can, of course, find some terminal programs
> for windows (eg. mintty), but I doubt that that's what you are dealing
> with.
>
> What MS Windows users usually end up using is the console.  If you
> run, eg. cmd.exe, it will create a process that displays a graphical
> console.  The console uses an encoding scheme to represent the text
> output.  I believe that the default on MS Windows is to use some
> single-byte encoding. This answer from SE family site tells you how to
> set the console encoding to UTF-8 permanently:
> https://superuser.com/questions/269818/change-default-code-page-of-windows-console-to-utf-8
> , which, I believe, will solve your problem with how the text is
> displayed.

I'm not using MS Windows.  I am using a Gnome terminal on Debian 12
locally and connecting via SSH to a AlmaLinux 8 server, where I start a
tmux session. 

> On Thu, Oct 31, 2024 at 5:19 PM Loris Bennett via Python-list
> <python-list@python.org> wrote:
>>
>> Hi,
>>
>> I have a command-line program which creates an email containing German
>> umlauts.  On receiving the mail, my mail client displays the subject and
>> body correctly:
>>
>>   Subject: Übung
>>
>>   Sehr geehrter Herr Dr. Bennett,
>>
>>   Dies ist eine Übung.
>>
>> So far, so good.  However, when I use the --verbose option to print
>> the mail to the terminal via
>>
>>   if args.verbose:
>>       print(mail)
>>
>> I get:
>>
>>   Subject: Übungsbetreff
>>
>>   Sehr geehrter Herr Dr. Bennett,
>>
>>   Dies ist eine =C3=9Cbung.
>>
>> What do I need to do to prevent the body from getting mangled?
>>
>> I seem to remember that I had issues in the past with a Perl version of
>> a similar program.  As far as I recall there was an issue with fact the
>> greeting is generated by querying a server, whereas the body is being
>> read from a file, which lead to oddities when the two bits were
>> concatenated.  But that might just have been a Perl thing.
>>
>> Cheers,
>>
>> Loris
>>
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Dr. Loris Bennett (Herr/Mr)
FUB-IT, Freie Universität Berlin

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Printing UTF-8 mail to terminal "Loris Bennett" <loris.bennett@fu-berlin.de> - 2024-10-31 16:33 +0100
  Re: Printing UTF-8 mail to terminal Left Right <olegsivokon@gmail.com> - 2024-10-31 17:38 +0100
    Re: Printing UTF-8 mail to terminal "Loris Bennett" <loris.bennett@fu-berlin.de> - 2024-11-01 07:52 +0100
      Re: Printing UTF-8 mail to terminal Inada Naoki <songofacandy@gmail.com> - 2024-11-03 12:08 +0900
        Re: Printing UTF-8 mail to terminal "Loris Bennett" <loris.bennett@fu-berlin.de> - 2024-11-04 11:48 +0100
  Re: Printing UTF-8 mail to terminal (Posting On Python-List Prohibited) Lawrence D'Oliveiro <ldo@nz.invalid> - 2024-10-31 19:35 +0000
  Re: Printing UTF-8 mail to terminal Cameron Simpson <cs@cskk.id.au> - 2024-11-01 07:50 +1100
    Re: Printing UTF-8 mail to terminal "Loris Bennett" <loris.bennett@fu-berlin.de> - 2024-11-01 08:11 +0100
      Re: Printing UTF-8 mail to terminal "Loris Bennett" <loris.bennett@fu-berlin.de> - 2024-11-01 10:10 +0100
        Re: Printing UTF-8 mail to terminal dieter.maurer@online.de - 2024-11-01 17:38 +0100
        Re: Printing UTF-8 mail to terminal Cameron Simpson <cs@cskk.id.au> - 2024-11-02 08:47 +1100
          Re: Printing UTF-8 mail to terminal "Loris Bennett" <loris.bennett@fu-berlin.de> - 2024-11-04 11:44 +0100
            Re: Printing UTF-8 mail to terminal "Loris Bennett" <loris.bennett@fu-berlin.de> - 2024-11-04 11:57 +0100
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