Left Right <olegsivo...@gmail.com> writes: > 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.
I'm not using MS Windows. I am using a Gnome terminal on Debian 12 locally and connecting via SSH to a AlmaLinux 8 server, where I start a tmux session. > 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 -- Dr. Loris Bennett (Herr/Mr) FUB-IT, Freie Universität Berlin -- https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
