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On Tue, Jan 27, 2015, at 12:25, Mark Lawrence wrote:
> People might find this http://bugs.python.org/issue1602 and hence this 
> https://github.com/Drekin/win-unicode-console useful.  The latter is 
> available on pypi.

However, Arabic is one of those scripts that runs up against the real
limitations of the windows console. At least on non-Arabic versions of
Windows, you'll just get a sequence of boxes, and it won't do any
bidirectional processing either. I have no idea what, if anything, it
would do differently on Arabic versions of Windows.