unable to print Unicode characters in Python 3

[John Machin]

On Jan 27, 11:52 pm, "Giampaolo Rodola'" <gne... at gmail.com> wrote:
> On 26 Gen, 19:16, jefm <jef.mangelsch... at gmail.com> wrote:
>
>
>
> > Hi,
> > while checking out Python 3, I read that all text strings are now
> > natively Unicode.
> > In the Python language reference (http://docs.python.org/3.0/reference/
> > lexical_analysis.html) I read that I can show Unicode character in
> > several ways.
> > "\uxxxx" supposedly allows me to specify the Unicode character by hex
> > number and the format  "\N{name}" allows me to specify by Unicode
> > name.
> > Neither seem to work for me.
> > What am I doing wrong ?
>
> > Please see error output below where I am trying to show the EURO sign
> > (http://www.fileformat.info/info/unicode/char/20ac/index.htm):
>
> > Python 3.0 (r30:67507, Dec  3 2008, 20:14:27) [MSC v.1500 32 bit
> > (Intel)] on win32
> > Type "help", "copyright", "credits" or "license" for more information.>>> print('\u20ac')
>
> > Traceback (most recent call last):
> >   File "<stdin>", line 1, in <module>
> >   File "c:\python30\lib\io.py", line 1491, in write
> >     b = encoder.encode(s)
> >   File "c:\python30\lib\encodings\cp437.py", line 19, in encode
> >     return codecs.charmap_encode(input,self.errors,encoding_map)[0]
> > UnicodeEncodeError: 'charmap' codec can't encode character '\u20ac' in
> > position 0: character maps to <undefined>
>
> > >>> print ("\N{EURO SIGN}")
>
> > Traceback (most recent call last):
> >   File "<stdin>", line 1, in <module>
> >   File "c:\python30\lib\io.py", line 1491, in write
> >     b = encoder.encode(s)
> >   File "c:\python30\lib\encodings\cp437.py", line 19, in encode
> >     return codecs.charmap_encode(input,self.errors,encoding_map)[0]
> > UnicodeEncodeError: 'charmap' codec can't encode character '\u20ac' in
> > position 0: character maps to <undefined>
>
> I have this same issue on Windows.
> Note that on Python 2.6 it works:
>
> Python 2.6.1 (r261:67517, Dec  4 2008, 16:51:00) [MSC v.1500 32 bit
> (Intel)] on
> win32
> Type "help", "copyright", "credits" or "license" for more information.>>> print unicode('\u20ac')
>
> \u20ac
>
> This is pretty serious, IMHO, since breaks any Windows software
> priting unicode to stdout.
> I've filed an issue on the Python bug tracker:http://bugs.python.org/issue5081

Hello hello -- (1) that's *not* attempting to print Unicode. Look at
your own output ... "\u20ac"" was printed, not a euro character!!!
With 2.X for *any* X:
>>> guff ='\u20ac'
>>> type(guff)
<type 'str'>
>>> len(guff)
6

(2) Printing Unicode to a Windows console has never *worked*; that's
why this thread was pursuing the faint ray of hope offered by cp65001.