[issue1602] windows console doesn't print utf8 (Py30a2)

[STINNER Victor]

STINNER Victor <victor.stinner at haypocalc.com> added the comment:

> Maybe the solution is to use the win32 console API directly...

Yes, it is the best solution because it avoids the horrible mbcs encoding.

About cp65001: it is not *exactly* the same encoding than utf-8 and so it cannot be used as an alias to utf-8: see issue #6058.

----------

_______________________________________
Python tracker <report at bugs.python.org>
<http://bugs.python.org/issue1602>
_______________________________________