Unicode failure

[Terry Reedy]

On 12/5/2015 2:44 PM, Random832 wrote:
> On 2015-12-05, Terry Reedy <tjreedy at udel.edu> wrote:
>> On 12/4/2015 10:22 PM, Random832 wrote:
>>> Well, any bar 1200, 1201, 12000, 12001, 65000, 65001, and 54936.
>>
>> Test before you post.
>
> As someone else pointed out, I meant that as a list of codepages
> which support all Unicode codepoints, not a list of codepoints
> not supported by Tk's UCS-2.  Sorry, I assumed everyone knew
> offhand that 65001 was UTF-8

So Microsoft claims, but it is not terribly useful.  Currently, on my 
Win 10 system, 'chcp 65001' results in sys.stdout.encoding = 'cp65001', and

for cp in 1200, 1201, 12000, 12001, 65000, 65001, 54936:
     print(chr(cp))

running without the usual exception.  But of the above numbers 
mis-interpreted as codepoints, only 1200 and 1201 print anything other 
than a box with ?, whereas IDLE printed 3 other chars for 3 other 
assigned codepoints. If I change the console font to Lucida Console, 
which I use in IDLE, even chr(1200) gives a box.

> and would infer that the rest were for other UTF encodings.

After re-reading, I see how I might have inferred that.  Anyway, the OP 
found the solution for his system.

-- 
Terry Jan Reedy