Help: printing Unicode characters during telnet session

"Martin v. Löwis" martin at v.loewis.de
Tue Jun 24 15:46:20 EDT 2003


Pekka Niiranen wrote:

> Should I create python shell or is there any other way ?

If, by "shell", you mean the Windows terminal window:

This can only display a limited number of characters. This is
not inherently a limitation of python, but of the terminal
window - this system component uses a certain font, and that
font only supports so many characters.

To get support for more characters, you need to do a number of
things:
a) use a console font with more characters, e.g. Lucida Console,
b) use a console code page that has all the characters that you
    want to display.
c) tell the editor on the other end to convert the text file,
    for display, to the code page that your terminal supports

There is nothing Python could do for you to improve this
situation. You might consider using a different terminal
emulation, though.

Regards,
Martin





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