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Re: Problem with Unicode char in Python 3.3.0

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On 1/7/2013 7:57 AM, Franck Ditter wrote:

> <<< print('\U0001d11e')
> Traceback (most recent call last):
>    File "<pyshell#1>", line 1, in <module>
>      print('\U0001d11e')
> UnicodeEncodeError: 'UCS-2' codec can't encode character '\U0001d11e'
> in position 0: Non-BMP character not supported in Tk

The message comes from printing to a tk text widget (the IDLE shell), 
not from creating the 1 char string. c = '\U0001d11e' works fine. When 
you have problems with creating and printing unicode, *separate* 
creating from printing to see where the problem is. (I do not know if 
the brand new tcl/tk 8.6 is any better.)

The windows console also chokes, but with a different message.

 >>> c='\U0001d11e'
 >>> print(c)
Traceback (most recent call last):
   File "<stdin>", line 1, in <module>
   File "C:\Programs\Python33\lib\encodings\cp437.py", line 19, in encode
     return codecs.charmap_encode(input,self.errors,encoding_map)[0]
UnicodeEncodeError: 'charmap' codec can't encode character '\U0001d11e' 
in posit
ion 0: character maps to <undefined>

Yes, this is very annoying, especially in Win 7.

-- 
Terry Jan Reedy

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Problem with Unicode char in Python 3.3.0 Franck Ditter <nobody@nowhere.org> - 2013-01-06 17:43 +0100
  Re: Problem with Unicode char in Python 3.3.0 Peter Otten <__peter__@web.de> - 2013-01-06 18:03 +0100
  Re: Problem with Unicode char in Python 3.3.0 marduk <marduk@python.net> - 2013-01-06 12:10 -0500
    Re: Problem with Unicode char in Python 3.3.0 Franck Ditter <nobody@nowhere.org> - 2013-01-07 13:57 +0100
      Re: Problem with Unicode char in Python 3.3.0 Chris Angelico <rosuav@gmail.com> - 2013-01-08 00:04 +1100
      Re: Problem with Unicode char in Python 3.3.0 Terry Reedy <tjreedy@udel.edu> - 2013-01-07 08:12 -0500
      Re: Problem with Unicode char in Python 3.3.0 Terry Reedy <tjreedy@udel.edu> - 2013-01-08 03:40 -0500

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