New submission from Peter Boström <peterbost...@gmail.com>: When reading from piped stdin, python has trouble decoding some special characters.
To reproduce, run the following command from cmd.exe: echo ü | C:\Python31\python.exe pycat.py UnicodeDecodeError: 'charmap' codec can't decode byte 0x81 in position 0: character maps to <undefined> I've been able to reproduce this in a German version of Windows Vista, which I use at work. I detected this error when trying to pipe (and parse) output from the ping command, which contains non-simple characters. If I don't pipe and just type into the program, it works just fine, even with "strange" characters. ---------- components: Windows files: pycat.py messages: 112810 nosy: pbos priority: normal severity: normal status: open title: CharacterEncoderError when reading from sys.stdin from piped input in cmd.exe versions: Python 3.1 Added file: http://bugs.python.org/file18385/pycat.py _______________________________________ Python tracker <rep...@bugs.python.org> <http://bugs.python.org/issue9511> _______________________________________ _______________________________________________ Python-bugs-list mailing list Unsubscribe: http://mail.python.org/mailman/options/python-bugs-list/archive%40mail-archive.com
