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

[STINNER Victor]

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

I don't understand exactly the goal of this issue. Different people described various bugs of the Windows console, but I don't see any problem with Python here. It looks like it's just not possible to display correctly unicode with the Windows console (the whole unicode charset, not the current code page subset).

- 65001 code page: it's not the same encoding than utf-8 and so it cannot be set as an alias to utf-8 (see #6058) => nothing to do, or maybe document that PYTHONIOENCODING=utf-8 workaround... But if you do that, you may get strange errors when writing to stdout or stderr like "IOError: [Errno 13] Permission denied" or "IOError: [Errno 2] No such file or directory" ...
- chcp command sets the console encoding, which is stupid because the console still expects text encoded to the previous code page => Windows (chcp command) bug, chcp command should not be used (it doesn't solve any problem, it just makes the situation worse)
- use the console API instead of read()/write() to fix this issue: it doesn't work, the console is completly buggy (msg120414) => Windows (console) bug
- use "Lucida Console" font avoids some issue => I don't think that the Python interpreter should configure the console (using SetCurrentConsoleFontEx?), it's not the role of Python

To me, there is nothing to do, and so I close the bug.

If you would like to fix a particular Python bug, open a new specific issue. If you consider that I'm wrong, Python should fix this issue and you know how, please reopen it.

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resolution:  -> invalid
status: open -> closed

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