[issue4599] Strings undisplayable with repr

2008-12-08 Thread Martin v. Löwis
Changes by Martin v. Löwis <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: -- resolution: -> works for me status: open -> closed ___ Python tracker <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> ___ __

[issue4599] Strings undisplayable with repr

2008-12-08 Thread Martin v. Löwis
Martin v. Löwis <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> added the comment: > Hmmm... nope - my terminal encoding (according to Python) on WIndows > Vista x64 (with 32bit Python and a vanilla cmd) is cp850. Ah, ok. That doesn't have the euro sign, either. Try it in IDLE, though.

[issue4599] Strings undisplayable with repr

2008-12-08 Thread Michael Foord
Michael Foord <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> added the comment: OK - and as a further follow up, the traceback I posted for Mac OS X was from a terminal called iTerm. I tried the same thing on the standard 'Terminal' app and it prints the Euro symbol fine. Looks like iTerm is an ascii terminal. Sorry for t

[issue4599] Strings undisplayable with repr

2008-12-08 Thread Michael Foord
Michael Foord <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> added the comment: Hmmm... nope - my terminal encoding (according to Python) on WIndows Vista x64 (with 32bit Python and a vanilla cmd) is cp850. C:\compile>C:\Python30\python.exe Python 3.0 (r30:67507, Dec 3 2008, 20:14:27) [MSC v.1500 32 bit (Intel)] on win 3

[issue4599] Strings undisplayable with repr

2008-12-08 Thread Martin v. Löwis
Martin v. Löwis <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> added the comment: This specific character shouldn't be undisplayable on Windows, not even on your version of Windows. Instead, Python should find out how to convert it to your terminal's encoding, rather than using ASCII. It's a bug that the OSX port using AS

[issue4599] Strings undisplayable with repr

2008-12-08 Thread Michael Foord
New submission from Michael Foord <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: In Python 3 strings with non-ascii characters are undisplayable (even with repr) in the default interactive interpreter on Windows and Mac. Shouldn't the repr use escapes as with previous versions of Python? Python 2.6 Python 2.6 (trunk:6671