STINNER Victor <victor.stin...@haypocalc.com> added the comment: I done more tests on the Windows console. I focused my tests on output.
To sum up, if we implement sys.stdout using WriteConsoleW() and sys.stdout.buffer.raw using WriteConsoleA(): - print() will not fail anymore on unencodable characters, because the string is no longer encoded to the console code page - if you set the console font to a TrueType font, most characters will be displayed correctly - you don't need to change the (console) code page to CP_UTF8 (65001) anymore if you just use print() - you still need cp65001 if the output (stdout and/or stderr) is redirected or if you use directly sys.stdout.buffer or sys.stderr.buffer Other facts: - locale.getpreferredencoding() returns the ANSI code page - sys.stdin.encoding is the console encoding (GetConsoleCP()) - sys.stdout.encoding and sys.stderr.encoding are the console output code page (GetConsoleOutputCP()) - sys.stdout is not a TTY if the output is redirect, e.g. "python script.py|more" - sys.stderr is not a TTY if the output is redirect, e.g. "python script.py 2>&1|more" (this example redirects stdout and stderr, I don't know how to redirect only stderr) - WriteConsoleW() is not affected by the console output code page (GetConsoleOutputCP) - WriteConsoleA() is indirectly affected by the console output code page: if a string cannot be encoded to the console output code page (e.g. sys.stdout.encoding), you cannot call WriteConsoleA with the result... - If the console font is a raster font and and the font doesn't contain a character, the console tries to find a similar glyph, or it falls back to the character '?' - If the console font is a TrueType font, it is able to display most Unicode characters ---------- _______________________________________ Python tracker <rep...@bugs.python.org> <http://bugs.python.org/issue1602> _______________________________________ _______________________________________________ Python-bugs-list mailing list Unsubscribe: http://mail.python.org/mailman/options/python-bugs-list/archive%40mail-archive.com
