Special Characters in Console

[Martin v. Löwis]

"Neil Hodgson" <nhodgson at bigpond.net.au> writes:

>    The windows console is generally using the "Terminal" font with the "DOS:
> Western Europe" character set which displays \xE4 as capital sigma. I don't
> know of an encoding that matches this.

In Python 2.3, using a Unicode string should make it work "out of the
box". The code page is cp850, but printing on sys.stdout will
automatically convert to the terminal encoding, so application
knowledge about the terminal encoding is not needed.

Regards,
Martin