Strange UnicodeEncodeError in Windows image on Azure DevOps and Github

[Inada Naoki]

On Sat, Nov 12, 2022 at 11:53 AM Inada Naoki <songofacandy at gmail.com> wrote:
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> On Sat, Nov 12, 2022 at 10:21 AM 12Jessicasmith34
> <12jessicasmith34 at gmail.com> wrote:
> >
> >
> > Two questions: any idea why this would be happening in this situation? AFAIK, stdout *is* a console when these images are running the python process. Second - is there a way I can check the locale and code page values that you mentioned? I assume I could call GetACP using ctypes, but maybe there is a simpler way?
> >
>
> Maybe, python doesn't write to console in this case.
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>   python -(pipe)-> PowerShell -> Console
>
> In this case, python uses ACP for writing to pipe.
> And PowerShell uses OutputEncoding for reading from pipe.
>
> If you want to use UTF-8 on PowerShell in Windows,
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>  * Set PYTHONUTF8=1 (Python uses UTF-8 for writing into pipe).
>  * Set `$OutputEncoding =
> [System.Text.Encoding]::GetEncoding('utf-8')` in PowerShell profile.
>

I forgot [Console]::OutputEncoding. This is what PowerShell uses when
reading from pipe. So PowerShell profile should be:

  $OutputEncoding = [Console]::OutputEncoding = [System.Text.Encoding]::UTF8

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Inada Naoki  <songofacandy at gmail.com>