Right solution to unicode error?

[wxjmfauth at gmail.com]

Le jeudi 8 novembre 2012 19:49:24 UTC+1, Ian a écrit :
> On Thu, Nov 8, 2012 at 11:32 AM, Oscar Benjamin
> 
> <oscar.j.benjamin at gmail.com> wrote:
> 
> > If I want the other characters to work I need to change the code page:
> 
> >
> 
> > O:\>chcp 65001
> 
> > Active code page: 65001
> 
> >
> 
> > O:\>Q:\tools\Python33\python -c "import sys;
> 
> > sys.stdout.buffer.write('\u03b1\n'.encode('utf-8'))"
> 
> > α
> 
> >
> 
> > O:\>Q:\tools\Python33\python -c "import sys;
> 
> > sys.stdout.buffer.write('\u03b1\n'.encode(sys.stdout.en
> 
> > coding))"
> 
> > α
> 
> 
> 
> I find that I also need to change the font.  With the default font,
> 
> printing '\u2013' gives me:
> 
> 
> 
> –
> 
> 
> 
> The only alternative font option I have in Windows XP is Lucida
> 
> Console, which at least works correctly, although it seems to be
> 
> lacking a lot of glyphs.

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Font has nothing to do here.
You are "simply" wrongly encoding your "unicode".

>>> '\u2013'
'–'
>>> '\u2013'.encode('utf-8')
b'\xe2\x80\x93'
>>> '\u2013'.encode('utf-8').decode('cp1252')
'–'

jmf