On Fri Aug 12 19:03:38 EDT 2016 Victor Stinner wrote:

For the Windows console: I played with all Windows functions, tried all fonts and many code pages. I also read technical blog articles of Microsoft employees. I gave up on this issue. It doesn't seem possible to support fully Unicode the Windows console (at least the last time I checked). By the way, it seems like Windows functions have bugs, and the code page 65001 fixes a few issues but introduces new issues...

Do you mean that it doesn't seem possible to support Unicode on the Windows console by means of ANSI codepages? Because using the wide APIs seems to work (as win_unicode_console shows). There are some issues like non-BMP characters, which are encoded as surrogate pairs and the console doesn't understand them for display (shows two boxes), but this is just matter of display and not of corruption of the actual data (e.g. you can copy the text from console). Also, there seems to be no font to support all Unicode and AFAIK you cannot configure the console to use multiple fonts, but again this is a display issue of the console window itself rather than of the essential communication between Python and console.

Adam Bartoš