#30400: Improve typography of user facing strings.
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Reporter: Jon Dufresne | Owner: Jon
Type: | Dufresne
Cleanup/optimization | Status: assigned
Component: Core (Other) | Version: master
Severity: Normal | Resolution:
Keywords: | Triage Stage: Accepted
Has patch: 1 | Needs documentation: 0
Needs tests: 0 | Patch needs improvement: 1
Easy pickings: 0 | UI/UX: 0
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Comment (by Nick Pope):
Agreed - It seems a shame that we can't have nice things because the
Windows Command Prompt has been neglected for so long.
There is an interesting [https://bit.ly/2GBAJY6 article] on how this is
already being fixed, but it will take time until the majority of users do
not have a broken command prompt.
I was already looking into sprucing up some of the command output and was
considering the exact same possibility of substituting some ASCII
alternatives on terminals that do not support UTF-8. Give me a few weeks
and I'll resurrect my branch for this to see if there is a possible way
forward.
In the meantime, we should stick with the policy of not supporting unicode
in shell output.
Also, out of interest, we only support Python 3.6+ for Django 3.0 which
includes [https://docs.python.org/3/whatsnew/3.6.html#pep-528-change-
windows-console-encoding-to-utf-8 PEP 528] and
[https://docs.python.org/3/whatsnew/3.6.html#pep-529-change-windows-
filesystem-encoding-to-utf-8 PEP 529] and this may mean that issues such
as #30184 and #30324 become a thing of the past anyway. I haven't tested
this to make sure though, and the ability to disable unicode shell output
would be a good idea anyway.
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