Special Characters in Console

[Bernard Delmée]

> # -*- coding: latin_1 -*-
>
> print "Mädchen"
> print "M\xE4dchen"
>
> Both statements produce a capital sigma where they ä should be. Typing
> "\xE4" directly in the console also spits back a sigma.

On the other hand if you capture the output in a file and then load
it in notepad/vim/pythonwin, you'll see that they look as expected...

> What encoding does the console use? Is there a way to get it to use
> latin-1?

Not that I know of. You might be interested in the win32 port
of the rxvt terminal which is bundled with the MSYS subproject
of the MINGW win32 port of gcc:

http://sourceforge.net/project/showfiles.php?group_id=2435

Regards,

Bernard.