Path: csiph.com!v102.xanadu-bbs.net!xanadu-bbs.net!news.mixmin.net!feeds.phibee-telecom.net!newsfeed.xs4all.nl!newsfeed1.news.xs4all.nl!xs4all!newsgate.cistron.nl!newsgate.news.xs4all.nl!post.news.xs4all.nl!not-for-mail Return-Path: X-Original-To: python-list@python.org Delivered-To: python-list@mail.python.org X-Spam-Status: OK 0.009 X-Spam-Evidence: '*H*': 0.98; '*S*': 0.00; 'irc': 0.05; 'output': 0.05; 'apis': 0.09; 'subject:characters': 0.09; 'python': 0.11; 'windows': 0.15; '(both': 0.16; 'displaying': 0.16; 'subject:Unicode': 0.16; 'underlying': 0.16; 'wrote:': 0.18; 'possible,': 0.19; 'written': 0.21; 'input': 0.22; 'header:User- Agent:1': 0.23; 'subject:problem': 0.24; 'unicode': 0.24; 'fine': 0.24; 'logging': 0.26; 'header:In-Reply-To:1': 0.27; 'chris': 0.29; '[1]': 0.29; 'url:code': 0.29; 'characters': 0.30; '(my': 0.31; 'subject:some': 0.31; 'quite': 0.32; 'text': 0.33; 'plain': 0.33; 'subject:with': 0.35; 'display': 0.35; 'but': 0.35; 'there': 0.35; 'largely': 0.36; 'problems': 0.38; 'to:addr:python-list': 0.38; 'does': 0.39; 'to:addr:python.org': 0.39; 'issues,': 0.61; "you're": 0.61; 'url:p': 0.64; 'containing': 0.69; 'bot': 0.84; 'difficult,': 0.91 Date: Sun, 3 Aug 2014 18:25:41 -0500 From: Andrew Berg User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 6.2; WOW64; rv:24.0) Gecko/20100101 Thunderbird/24.6.0 MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Subject: Re: cmd.exe on WIndows - problem with displaying some Unicode characters References: In-Reply-To: Content-Type: text/plain; charset="UTF-8" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Originating-IP: [2601:2:4780:2fd:e806:9aa:f68a:db81] X-ClientProxiedBy: BN3PR0301CA0010.namprd03.prod.outlook.com (25.160.180.148) To BY1PR0301MB0839.namprd03.prod.outlook.com (25.160.193.145) X-Microsoft-Antispam: BCL:0;PCL:0;RULEID: X-Forefront-PRVS: 02929ECF07 X-Forefront-Antispam-Report: SFV:NSPM; SFS:(6009001)(199002)(189002)(51444003)(24454002)(92566001)(74662001)(74502001)(110136001)(79102001)(83072002)(95666004)(88552001)(15975445006)(20776003)(47776003)(4396001)(99396002)(64706001)(75432001)(59896001)(77982001)(87266999)(83506001)(87976001)(54356999)(92726001)(50986999)(81542001)(105586002)(80022001)(33656002)(76176999)(77096002)(76482001)(21056001)(85852003)(106356001)(80316001)(81342001)(31966008)(50466002)(101416001)(83322001)(86362001)(65806001)(89122001)(65816999)(65956001)(46102001)(107046002)(2351001)(42186005)(102836001)(107886001)(19580395003)(85306004)(23676002)(3826002)(460985004); DIR:OUT; SFP:; SCL:1; SRVR:BY1PR0301MB0839; H:[IPv6:2601:2:4780:2fd:e806:9aa:f68a:db81]; FPR:; MLV:sfv; PTR:InfoNoRecords; MX:1; LANG:en; X-OriginatorOrg: my.hennepintech.edu X-BeenThere: python-list@python.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.15 Precedence: list List-Id: General discussion list for the Python programming language List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Newsgroups: comp.lang.python Message-ID: Lines: 13 NNTP-Posting-Host: 2001:888:2000:d::a6 X-Trace: 1407108354 news.xs4all.nl 2830 [2001:888:2000:d::a6]:48331 X-Complaints-To: abuse@xs4all.nl Xref: csiph.com comp.lang.python:75629 On 2014.08.03 18:08, Chris Angelico wrote: > The best way to do it is to use the Unicode codepage, but cmd.exe just > plain has issues. There are underlying Windows APIs for displaying > text that have problems with astral characters (I think that's what it > is), so ultimately, you're largely stuck. That is not quite true. The terminal has these issues, not the shell. Using cp65001 does make Unicode in a Windows terminal possible, but using a better terminal[1] makes it almost perfect (my experience has been that input can be difficult, but output works well). I personally have used an IRC bot written in Python with logging output containing Unicode characters that display just fine (both locally and over SSH). [1] I recommend ConEmu: https://code.google.com/p/conemu-maximus5/