Re: cmd.exe on WIndows - problem with displaying some Unicode characters

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On 8/4/2014 1:22 PM, Wiktor wrote:
> On Tue, 5 Aug 2014 03:06:41 +1000, Chris Angelico wrote:
>
>> On Tue, Aug 5, 2014 at 2:48 AM, Wiktor <look@signature.invalid> wrote:
>>>    From colorama I just use one function - init(). Without this
>>> initialization all those ansii escape characters (used by colorama itself,
>>> but also by termcolor.colored()) don't work in cmd.exe. At least I couldn't
>>> make it work.
>>
>> I dug into colorama's source code, and it seems that "just one
>> function" is a little dismissive :) When you call colorama's init(),
>> it replaces stdout with a wrapper that parses ANSI sequences and turns
>> them into API calls. So, yeah, without that anything that outputs ANSI
>> sequences isn't going to work.
>
>    Maybe I didn't write it clear. :-) What I meant was, that even though I
> don't use any other functions from colorama (I color all the strings with
> termcolor) - I still have to use init() function from colorama.
>    termcolor doesn't want to work alone, even though its described as OS
> independent.

Termcolor says "ANSI Color formatting for output in terminal."
https://pypi.python.org/pypi/termcolor/1.1.0

It is OS-independent but depends on support of standard ANSI screen 
command codes. Microsoft removed that support from cmd.exe. If you look 
at the Terminal properties box on the page above, the only thing 
termcolor can do on Windows, by itself, is reversed text.  Colorama.init 
adds back (at least some of) the ANSI to API translation omitted from 
cmd.exe.

> I guess it works fine on Linux terminal without init()

Because linux terminals translate ANSI to whatever api calls are needed.

> function from colorama. In cmd.exe I need colorama just for this.

-- 
Terry Jan Reedy

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cmd.exe on WIndows - problem with displaying some Unicode characters Wiktor <look@signature.invalid> - 2014-08-04 00:52 +0200
  Re: cmd.exe on WIndows - problem with displaying some Unicode characters Chris Angelico <rosuav@gmail.com> - 2014-08-04 09:08 +1000
    Re: cmd.exe on WIndows - problem with displaying some Unicode characters Christian Gollwitzer <auriocus@gmx.de> - 2014-08-04 22:35 +0200
  Re: cmd.exe on WIndows - problem with displaying some Unicode characters Mark Lawrence <breamoreboy@yahoo.co.uk> - 2014-08-04 00:20 +0100
  Re: cmd.exe on WIndows - problem with displaying some Unicode characters Andrew Berg <aberg010@my.hennepintech.edu> - 2014-08-03 18:25 -0500
  Re: cmd.exe on WIndows - problem with displaying some Unicode characters Mark Lawrence <breamoreboy@yahoo.co.uk> - 2014-08-04 00:29 +0100
  Re: cmd.exe on WIndows - problem with displaying some Unicode characters Chris Angelico <rosuav@gmail.com> - 2014-08-04 09:39 +1000
  Re: cmd.exe on WIndows - problem with displaying some Unicode characters Chris Angelico <rosuav@gmail.com> - 2014-08-04 10:14 +1000
  Re: cmd.exe on WIndows - problem with displaying some Unicode characters Glenn Linderman <v+python@g.nevcal.com> - 2014-08-03 17:17 -0700
    Re: cmd.exe on WIndows - problem with displaying some Unicode characters wxjmfauth@gmail.com - 2014-08-04 01:47 -0700
  Re: cmd.exe on WIndows - problem with displaying some Unicode characters Glenn Linderman <v+python@g.nevcal.com> - 2014-08-03 21:14 -0700
  Re: cmd.exe on WIndows - problem with displaying some Unicode characters Andrew Berg <aberg010@my.hennepintech.edu> - 2014-08-04 00:06 -0500
  Re: cmd.exe on WIndows - problem with displaying some Unicode characters Terry Reedy <tjreedy@udel.edu> - 2014-08-04 04:39 -0400
    Re: cmd.exe on WIndows - problem with displaying some Unicode characters Wiktor <look@signature.invalid> - 2014-08-04 17:00 +0200
      Re: cmd.exe on WIndows - problem with displaying some Unicode characters Wolfgang Maier <wolfgang.maier@biologie.uni-freiburg.de> - 2014-08-04 17:43 +0200
        Re: cmd.exe on WIndows - problem with displaying some Unicode characters Wiktor <look@signature.invalid> - 2014-08-04 18:48 +0200
          Re: cmd.exe on WIndows - problem with displaying some Unicode characters Chris Angelico <rosuav@gmail.com> - 2014-08-05 03:06 +1000
            Re: cmd.exe on WIndows - problem with displaying some Unicode characters Wiktor <look@signature.invalid> - 2014-08-04 19:22 +0200
              Re: cmd.exe on WIndows - problem with displaying some Unicode characters Terry Reedy <tjreedy@udel.edu> - 2014-08-04 15:43 -0400
      Re: cmd.exe on WIndows - problem with displaying some Unicode characters Terry Reedy <tjreedy@udel.edu> - 2014-08-04 15:17 -0400
        Re: cmd.exe on WIndows - problem with displaying some Unicode characters Wiktor <look@signature.invalid> - 2014-08-04 22:24 +0200
          Re: cmd.exe on WIndows - problem with displaying some Unicode characters Akira Li <4kir4.1i@gmail.com> - 2014-08-05 04:51 +0400
            Re: cmd.exe on WIndows - problem with displaying some Unicode characters wxjmfauth@gmail.com - 2014-08-05 00:38 -0700
            Re: cmd.exe on WIndows - problem with displaying some Unicode characters Wiktor <look@signature.invalid> - 2014-08-05 11:39 +0200
      Re: cmd.exe on WIndows - problem with displaying some Unicode characters Chris Angelico <rosuav@gmail.com> - 2014-08-05 06:11 +1000
      Re: cmd.exe on WIndows - problem with displaying some Unicode characters giacomo boffi <g@boffi.net> - 2014-08-04 22:53 +0200
  Re: cmd.exe on WIndows - problem with displaying some Unicode characters Chris “Kwpolska” Warrick <kwpolska@gmail.com> - 2014-08-04 10:46 +0200
  Re: cmd.exe on WIndows - problem with displaying some Unicode characters Glenn Linderman <v+python@g.nevcal.com> - 2014-08-04 02:46 -0700
  Re: cmd.exe on WIndows - problem with displaying some Unicode characters Glenn Linderman <v+python@g.nevcal.com> - 2014-08-04 02:53 -0700
  Re: cmd.exe on WIndows - problem with displaying some Unicode characters Wolfgang Maier <wolfgang.maier@biologie.uni-freiburg.de> - 2014-08-04 12:24 +0200
  Re: cmd.exe on WIndows - problem with displaying some Unicode characters Andrew Berg <aberg010@my.hennepintech.edu> - 2014-08-04 05:33 -0500
  Re: cmd.exe on WIndows - problem with displaying some Unicode characters Glenn Linderman <v+python@g.nevcal.com> - 2014-08-04 11:04 -0700
  Re: cmd.exe on WIndows - problem with displaying some Unicode characters Glenn Linderman <v+python@g.nevcal.com> - 2014-08-04 11:15 -0700
    Re: cmd.exe on WIndows - problem with displaying some Unicode characters Grant Edwards <invalid@invalid.invalid> - 2014-08-04 19:30 +0000
  Re: cmd.exe on WIndows - problem with displaying some Unicode characters Terry Reedy <tjreedy@udel.edu> - 2014-08-04 15:25 -0400
  Re: cmd.exe on WIndows - problem with displaying some Unicode characters Tony the Tiger <tony@tiger.invalid> - 2014-08-05 20:26 +0000
    Re: cmd.exe on WIndows - problem with displaying some Unicode characters Grant Edwards <invalid@invalid.invalid> - 2014-08-05 20:41 +0000
    Re: cmd.exe on WIndows - problem with displaying some Unicode characters Wiktor <look@signature.invalid> - 2014-08-06 00:16 +0200
      Re: cmd.exe on WIndows - problem with displaying some Unicode characters Tony the Tiger <tony@tiger.invalid> - 2014-08-06 18:27 +0000
    Re: cmd.exe on WIndows - problem with displaying some Unicode characters wxjmfauth@gmail.com - 2014-08-05 23:30 -0700

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