Re: Right solution to unicode error?

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Le jeudi 8 novembre 2012 19:49:24 UTC+1, Ian a écrit :
> On Thu, Nov 8, 2012 at 11:32 AM, Oscar Benjamin
> 
> <oscar.j.benjamin@gmail.com> wrote:
> 
> > If I want the other characters to work I need to change the code page:
> 
> >
> 
> > O:\>chcp 65001
> 
> > Active code page: 65001
> 
> >
> 
> > O:\>Q:\tools\Python33\python -c "import sys;
> 
> > sys.stdout.buffer.write('\u03b1\n'.encode('utf-8'))"
> 
> > α
> 
> >
> 
> > O:\>Q:\tools\Python33\python -c "import sys;
> 
> > sys.stdout.buffer.write('\u03b1\n'.encode(sys.stdout.en
> 
> > coding))"
> 
> > α
> 
> 
> 
> I find that I also need to change the font.  With the default font,
> 
> printing '\u2013' gives me:
> 
> 
> 
> â€“
> 
> 
> 
> The only alternative font option I have in Windows XP is Lucida
> 
> Console, which at least works correctly, although it seems to be
> 
> lacking a lot of glyphs.

--------

Font has nothing to do here.
You are "simply" wrongly encoding your "unicode".

>>> '\u2013'
'–'
>>> '\u2013'.encode('utf-8')
b'\xe2\x80\x93'
>>> '\u2013'.encode('utf-8').decode('cp1252')
'â€“'

jmf

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Right solution to unicode error? Anders <aschneiderman@asha.org> - 2012-11-07 14:17 -0800
  RE: Right solution to unicode error? "Prasad, Ramit" <ramit.prasad@jpmorgan.com> - 2012-11-07 23:07 +0000
  Re: Right solution to unicode error? Oscar Benjamin <oscar.j.benjamin@gmail.com> - 2012-11-07 23:27 +0000
  Re: Right solution to unicode error? Andrew Berg <bahamutzero8825@gmail.com> - 2012-11-07 17:51 -0600
  Re: Right solution to unicode error? Steven D'Aprano <steve+comp.lang.python@pearwood.info> - 2012-11-07 23:53 +0000
    Re: Right solution to unicode error? Hans Mulder <hansmu@xs4all.nl> - 2012-11-08 12:40 +0100
  Re: Right solution to unicode error? Oscar Benjamin <oscar.j.benjamin@gmail.com> - 2012-11-08 00:44 +0000
  Re: Right solution to unicode error? wxjmfauth@gmail.com - 2012-11-08 03:01 -0800
  RE: Right solution to unicode error? Anders Schneiderman <ASchneiderman@asha.org> - 2012-11-08 09:00 -0500
  Re: Right solution to unicode error? Oscar Benjamin <oscar.j.benjamin@gmail.com> - 2012-11-08 14:06 +0000
    Re: Right solution to unicode error? wxjmfauth@gmail.com - 2012-11-08 07:05 -0800
      Re: Right solution to unicode error? Oscar Benjamin <oscar.j.benjamin@gmail.com> - 2012-11-08 18:32 +0000
        Re: Right solution to unicode error? wxjmfauth@gmail.com - 2012-11-08 11:30 -0800
        Re: Right solution to unicode error? wxjmfauth@gmail.com - 2012-11-08 11:30 -0800
      Re: Right solution to unicode error? Ian Kelly <ian.g.kelly@gmail.com> - 2012-11-08 11:48 -0700
        Re: Right solution to unicode error? wxjmfauth@gmail.com - 2012-11-08 11:54 -0800
          Re: Right solution to unicode error? Ian Kelly <ian.g.kelly@gmail.com> - 2012-11-08 13:41 -0700
            Re: Right solution to unicode error? wxjmfauth@gmail.com - 2012-11-09 02:06 -0800
          RE: Right solution to unicode error? "Prasad, Ramit" <ramit.prasad@jpmorgan.com> - 2012-11-08 20:54 +0000
          Re: Right solution to unicode error? Ian Kelly <ian.g.kelly@gmail.com> - 2012-11-08 14:07 -0700
          Re: Right solution to unicode error? Oscar Benjamin <oscar.j.benjamin@gmail.com> - 2012-11-08 21:37 +0000
        Re: Right solution to unicode error? wxjmfauth@gmail.com - 2012-11-08 11:54 -0800
  Re: Right solution to unicode error? Andrew Berg <bahamutzero8825@gmail.com> - 2012-11-08 21:30 -0600

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