IDLE "Codepage" Switching?

[Peter J. Holzer]

On 2023-01-17 22:58:53 -0500, Thomas Passin wrote:
> On 1/17/2023 8:46 PM, rbowman wrote:
> > On Tue, 17 Jan 2023 12:47:29 +0000, Stephen Tucker wrote:
> > > 2. Does the IDLE in Python 3.x behave the same way?
> > 
> > fwiw
> > 
> > Python 3.10.6 (main, Nov 14 2022, 16:10:14) [GCC 11.3.0] on linux
> > Type "help", "copyright", "credits" or "license()" for more information.
> > str = ""
> > for c in range(140, 169):
> >      str += chr(c) + " "
> > 
> > print(str)
> > Œ  Ž   ‘ ’ “ ” • – — ˜ ™ š › œ  ž Ÿ   ¡ ¢ £ ¤ ¥
> > ¦ § ¨
> > 
> > 
> > I don't know how this will appear since Pan is showing the icon for a
> > character not in its set.  However, even with more undefined characters
> > the printable one do not change. I get the same output running Python3
> > from the terminal so it's not an IDLE thing.
> 
> I'm not sure what explanation is being asked for here.  Let's take Python3,
> so we can be sure that the strings are in unicode.  The font being used by
> the console isn't mentioned, but there's no reason it should have glyphs for
> any random unicode character.

Also note that the characters between 128 (U+0080) and 159 (U+009F)
inclusive aren't printable characters. They are control characters.

        hp

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