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. 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 -- https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
