[issue21164] print unicode in Windows console

2014-04-11 Thread Leslie Klein
Leslie Klein added the comment: I start ipython in Windows PowerShell. The "console" I am referring to is ipython running in WindowsPowerShell. I do not use the DOS cmd.exe When running ipython notebook from WindowsPowerShell -- no problem printing unicode. When running in PTVS (Py

[issue21164] print unicode in Windows console

2014-04-06 Thread Leslie Klein
New submission from Leslie Klein: The console behaves by encoding a str (using the sys.getdefaultencoding()) and then decodes the bytes to a glyph for rendering. The decoder used is 'cp437'. Apparently, there is no way to override that! See ipython notebook for summary and exam