Right solution to unicode error?

[Andrew Berg]

It would be a lot better though if it just worked straight away
without me needing to set the code page (like the terminal in every
other OS I use).

The crude equivalent of .bashrc/.zshrc/whatever shell startup script for
cmd is setting a string value (REG_SZ) in
HKCU\Software\Microsoft\Command Processor named autorun and setting that
with whatever command(s) you want to run whenever the shell starts. Mine
has a value of '@chcp 65001>nul'. I actually run zsh when practical
(gotta love Cygwin) and I have an equivalent command in my .zshrc.
Getting unicode to work in a Windows is a hassle, but it /can/ work.
CPython does have a bug that makes it annoying at times, though -
http://bugs.python.org/issue1602

 

[wxjmfauth]

Le jeudi 8 novembre 2012 21:42:58 UTC+1, Ian a écrit :

Font has nothing to do here.

You are "simply" wrongly encoding your "unicode".



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No, it seriously is the font. This is what I get using the default

("Raster") font:



C:\>chcp 65001

Active code page: 65001



C:\>c:\python33\python

Python 3.3.0 (v3.3.0:bd8afb90ebf2, Sep 29 2012, 10:55:48) [MSC v.1600

32 bit (Intel)] on win32

Type "help", "copyright", "credits" or "license" for more information.

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I should note here that the characters copied and pasted do not

correspond to the glyphs actually displayed in my terminal window. In

the terminal window I actually see:



ΓÇô



If I change the font to Lucida Console and run the *exact same code*,

I get this:



C:\>chcp 65001

Active code page: 65001



C:\>c:\python33\python

Python 3.3.0 (v3.3.0:bd8afb90ebf2, Sep 29 2012, 10:55:48) [MSC v.1600

32 bit (Intel)] on win32

Type "help", "copyright", "credits" or "license" for more information.

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Why is the font important? I have no idea. Blame Microsoft.

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If you have something like this 'ΓÇô'; in
Unicode nomenclature:.... ud.name(c)
....
'GREEK CAPITAL LETTER GAMMA'
'LATIN CAPITAL LETTER C WITH CEDILLA'
'LATIN SMALL LETTER O WITH CIRCUMFLEX'

it is a sign of a "cp437" somewhere.
'ΓÇô'

On Windows 7. I do not remember having once a "coding
of the caracters" issue on XP.

jmf