print and unicode strings

[Jason Orendorff]

Martin v. Loewis wrote:
> "Jason Orendorff" <jason at jorendorff.com> writes:
>
> > I think IDLE should do this by default.  It's fine for
> > Python to "refuse to guess" encodings, but in the case of Tk
> > it's UTF-8 on all platforms... right?
>
> Well, not exactly. Tkinter supports Unicode strings as primary data
> type for text, with byte strings (e.g. UTF-8) only being the second
> choice. So IDLE should set sys.stdout to a stream that accepts Unicode
> objects as-is.

Thank you for the hint.  I've submitted the patch (a one-liner):

http://sourceforge.net/tracker/index.php?func=detail&aid=520483&group_id=547
0&atid=305470

> Also, setting the stream for the console to cp437 is not ideal; it
> would be much better if Python would use the Unicode console API
> (i.e. WriteConsoleW) if it detects that sys.stdout is a console.  If
> you then use the Lucida Console font (instead of the raster font), you
> might be even able to display COMET in a console.

That sounds nice.  I'll try to implement this next.

## Jason Orendorff    http://www.jorendorff.com/