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Re: Printing UTF-8 mail to terminal

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Try PYTHONUTF8=1 envver.

2024年11月2日(土) 0:36 Loris Bennett via Python-list <python-list@python.org>:

> Left Right <olegsivokon@gmail.com> writes:
>
> > There's quite a lot of misuse of terminology around terminal / console
> > / shell.  Please, correct me if I'm wrong, but it looks like you are
> > printing that on MS Windows, right?  MS Windows doesn't have or use
> > terminals (that's more of a Unix-related concept). And, by "terminal"
> > I mean terminal emulator (i.e. a program that emulates the behavior of
> > a physical terminal). You can, of course, find some terminal programs
> > for windows (eg. mintty), but I doubt that that's what you are dealing
> > with.
> >
> > What MS Windows users usually end up using is the console.  If you
> > run, eg. cmd.exe, it will create a process that displays a graphical
> > console.  The console uses an encoding scheme to represent the text
> > output.  I believe that the default on MS Windows is to use some
> > single-byte encoding. This answer from SE family site tells you how to
> > set the console encoding to UTF-8 permanently:
> >
> https://superuser.com/questions/269818/change-default-code-page-of-windows-console-to-utf-8
> > , which, I believe, will solve your problem with how the text is
> > displayed.
>
> I'm not using MS Windows.  I am using a Gnome terminal on Debian 12
> locally and connecting via SSH to a AlmaLinux 8 server, where I start a
> tmux session.
>
> > On Thu, Oct 31, 2024 at 5:19 PM Loris Bennett via Python-list
> > <python-list@python.org> wrote:
> >>
> >> Hi,
> >>
> >> I have a command-line program which creates an email containing German
> >> umlauts.  On receiving the mail, my mail client displays the subject and
> >> body correctly:
> >>
> >>   Subject: Übung
> >>
> >>   Sehr geehrter Herr Dr. Bennett,
> >>
> >>   Dies ist eine Übung.
> >>
> >> So far, so good.  However, when I use the --verbose option to print
> >> the mail to the terminal via
> >>
> >>   if args.verbose:
> >>       print(mail)
> >>
> >> I get:
> >>
> >>   Subject: Übungsbetreff
> >>
> >>   Sehr geehrter Herr Dr. Bennett,
> >>
> >>   Dies ist eine =C3=9Cbung.
> >>
> >> What do I need to do to prevent the body from getting mangled?
> >>
> >> I seem to remember that I had issues in the past with a Perl version of
> >> a similar program.  As far as I recall there was an issue with fact the
> >> greeting is generated by querying a server, whereas the body is being
> >> read from a file, which lead to oddities when the two bits were
> >> concatenated.  But that might just have been a Perl thing.
> >>
> >> Cheers,
> >>
> >> Loris
> >>
> >> --
> >> This signature is currently under constuction.
> >> --
> >> https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
> --
> Dr. Loris Bennett (Herr/Mr)
> FUB-IT, Freie Universität Berlin
> --
> https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
>

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Printing UTF-8 mail to terminal "Loris Bennett" <loris.bennett@fu-berlin.de> - 2024-10-31 16:33 +0100
  Re: Printing UTF-8 mail to terminal Left Right <olegsivokon@gmail.com> - 2024-10-31 17:38 +0100
    Re: Printing UTF-8 mail to terminal "Loris Bennett" <loris.bennett@fu-berlin.de> - 2024-11-01 07:52 +0100
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        Re: Printing UTF-8 mail to terminal "Loris Bennett" <loris.bennett@fu-berlin.de> - 2024-11-04 11:48 +0100
  Re: Printing UTF-8 mail to terminal (Posting On Python-List Prohibited) Lawrence D'Oliveiro <ldo@nz.invalid> - 2024-10-31 19:35 +0000
  Re: Printing UTF-8 mail to terminal Cameron Simpson <cs@cskk.id.au> - 2024-11-01 07:50 +1100
    Re: Printing UTF-8 mail to terminal "Loris Bennett" <loris.bennett@fu-berlin.de> - 2024-11-01 08:11 +0100
      Re: Printing UTF-8 mail to terminal "Loris Bennett" <loris.bennett@fu-berlin.de> - 2024-11-01 10:10 +0100
        Re: Printing UTF-8 mail to terminal dieter.maurer@online.de - 2024-11-01 17:38 +0100
        Re: Printing UTF-8 mail to terminal Cameron Simpson <cs@cskk.id.au> - 2024-11-02 08:47 +1100
          Re: Printing UTF-8 mail to terminal "Loris Bennett" <loris.bennett@fu-berlin.de> - 2024-11-04 11:44 +0100
            Re: Printing UTF-8 mail to terminal "Loris Bennett" <loris.bennett@fu-berlin.de> - 2024-11-04 11:57 +0100
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