Windows NT shell + extended characters. Bug or what?

[Wolfgang Strobl]

Sat, 16 Mar 2002 16:31:28 -0000, "Noel Smith" <nsbase at yahoo.co.uk>:

>Although I agree that interpreter can't determine the encoding
>automatically,

Of course the interpreter can determine the encoding automatically, it
just doesn't.

> it would be really nice to be able to set the input encoding
>when you start it up. 

Please note that input encoding and output encoding may be different.
The respective Win32 API functions are GetConsoleCP and
GetConsoleOutputCP.

>Its a real pain to look up the unicode value for every
>extended character you want to use and it would make Python a lot easier for
>those with a large number of extended characters on their keyboards.

Why don't you just use chcp 1252?

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