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Subject: Re: [Python-ideas] Unicode stdin/stdout
Date: Mon, 18 Nov 2013 17:30:06 -0500
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On Mon, Nov 18, 2013, at 7:33, Robin Becker wrote:
> UTF-8 stuff

This doesn't really solve the issue I was referring to, which is that
windows _console_ (i.e. not redirected file or pipe) I/O can only
support unicode via wide character (UTF-16) I/O with a special function,
not via using byte-based I/O with the normal write function.