Unicode issue on Windows cmd line

[Karen Tracey]

On Wed, Feb 11, 2009 at 2:50 PM, jeffg <jeffgemail at gmail.com> wrote:

> On Feb 11, 2:35 pm, Albert Hopkins <mar... at letterboxes.org> wrote:
> > On Wed, 2009-02-11 at 10:35 -0800, jeffg wrote:
> > > Having issue on Windows cmd.
> > > > Python.exe
> > > >>>a = u'\xf0'
> > > >>>print a
> >
> > > This gives a unicode error.
> >
> > > Works fine in IDLE, PythonWin, and my Macbook but I need to run this
> > > from a windows batch.
> >
> > > Character should look like this "ð".
> >
> > > Please help!
> >
> > You forgot to paste the error.
>
> The error looks like this:
>    File "<stdin", line 1, in <module>
>    File "C:\python25\lib\encodings\cp437.py", line 12, in encode
>      return codecs.charmap_encode(input,errors,encoding_map)
> UnicodeEncodeError: 'charmap' codec can't encode character u'\xf0' in
> position 0
> : character maps to <undefined>
>
>
> Running Python 2.5.4 on Windows XP
>

First, you may need to change your command prompt Properties->Font to use
Lucida Console rather than raster fonts.  Then you'll need to change the
code page using chcp to something that has a mapping for the character you
want. E.g.:

D:\>chcp
Active code page: 437

D:\>python
Python 2.5.2 (r252:60911, Feb 21 2008, 13:11:45) [MSC v.1310 32 bit (Intel)]
on win32
Type "help", "copyright", "credits" or "license" for more information.
>>> a = u'\xf0'
>>> print a
Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "<stdin>", line 1, in <module>
  File "D:\bin\Python2.5.2\lib\encodings\cp437.py", line 12, in encode
    return codecs.charmap_encode(input,errors,encoding_map)
UnicodeEncodeError: 'charmap' codec can't encode character u'\xf0' in
position 0: character maps to <undefined>
>>> quit()

D:\>chcp 1252
Active code page: 1252

D:\>python
Python 2.5.2 (r252:60911, Feb 21 2008, 13:11:45) [MSC v.1310 32 bit (Intel)]
on win32
Type "help", "copyright", "credits" or "license" for more information.
>>> a = u'\xf0'
>>> print a
ð
>>> quit()

D:\>

(Just changing the code page works to avoid the UnicodeEncodeError, but with
raster fonts that character displays as thee horizontal bars.)

Karen
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