Python unicode and Windows cmd.exe
Guillermo
guillermo.listas at googlemail.com
Sun Mar 14 17:53:11 EDT 2010
> The console is commonly using Code Page 437 which is most compatible
> with old DOS programs since it can display line drawing characters. You
> can change the code page to UTF-8 with
> chcp 65001
That's another issue in my actual script. A twofold problem, actually:
1) For me chcp gives 850 and I'm relying on that to decode the bytes I
get back from the console.
I suppose this is bound to fail because another Windows installation
might have a different default codepage.
2) My script gets output from a Popen call (to execute a Powershell
script [new Windows shell language] from Python; it does make sense!).
I suppose changing the Windows codepage for a single Popen call isn't
straightforward/possible?
Right now, I only get the desired result if I decode the output from
Popen as "cp850".
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