Right solution to unicode error?

[wxjmfauth at gmail.com]

Le jeudi 8 novembre 2012 15:07:23 UTC+1, Oscar Benjamin a écrit :
> On 8 November 2012 00:44, Oscar Benjamin <oscar.j.benjamin at gmail.com> wrote:
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> > On 7 November 2012 23:51, Andrew Berg <bahamutzero8825 at gmail.com> wrote:
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> >> On 2012.11.07 17:27, Oscar Benjamin wrote:
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> >>> Are you using cmd.exe (standard Windows terminal)? If so, it does not
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> >>> support unicode
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> >> Actually, it does. Code page 65001 is UTF-8. I know that doesn't help
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> >> the OP since Python versions below 3.3 don't support cp65001, but I
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> >> think it's important to point out that the Windows command line system
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> >> (it is not unique to cmd) does in fact support Unicode.
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> >
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> > I have tried to use code page 65001 and it didn't work for me even if
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> > I did use a version of Python (possibly 3.3 alpha) that claimed to
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> > support it.
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> 
> I stand corrected. I've just checked and codepage 65001 does work in
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> cmd.exe (on this machine):
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> O:\>Q:\tools\Python33\python -c print('abc\u2013def')
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> Traceback (most recent call last):
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>   File "<string>", line 1, in <module>
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>   File "Q:\tools\Python33\lib\encodings\cp850.py", line 19, in encode
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>     return codecs.charmap_encode(input,self.errors,encoding_map)[0]
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> UnicodeEncodeError: 'charmap' codec can't encode character '\u2013' in
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> position 3: character maps to
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>  <undefined>
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> O:\>chcp 65001
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> Active code page: 65001
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> O:\>Q:\tools\Python33\python -c print('abc\u2013def')
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> abc-def
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> O:\>Q:\tools\Python33\python -c print('\u03b1')
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> α
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> It would be a lot better though if it just worked straight away
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> without me needing to set the code page (like the terminal in every
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> other OS I use).
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> Oscar

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It *WORKS* straight away. The problem is that
people do not wish to use unicode correctly
(eg. Mulder's example).
Read the point 1) and 4) in my previous post.

Unicode and in general the coding of the characters
have nothing to do with the os's or programming languages.

jmf