[New-bugs-announce] [issue28333] input() with Unicode prompt produces mojibake on Windows

[Adam Bartoš]

New submission from Adam Bartoš:

In my setting (Python 3.6b1 on Windows), trying to prompt a non-ASCII character via input() results in mojibake. This is related to the recent fix of #1602 and so is Windows-specific.

>>> input("α")
╬▒

The result corresponds to print("α".encode("utf-8").decode("cp852")). That cp852 the default terminal encoding in my locale.

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components: Unicode, Windows
messages: 277821
nosy: Drekin, ezio.melotti, haypo, paul.moore, steve.dower, tim.golden, zach.ware
priority: normal
severity: normal
status: open
title: input() with Unicode prompt produces mojibake on Windows
type: behavior
versions: Python 3.6

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