unable to print Unicode characters in Python 3

[Ross Ridge]

John Machin writes:
> The only font choice offered apart from "Raster Fonts" in the Command
> Prompt window's Properties box is "Lucida Console", not "Lucida Sans
> Unicode". It will let me print Cyrillic characters from a C program,
> but not Chinese. I'm off looking for how to get a better font.

Thorsten Kampe  <thorsten at thorstenkampe.de> wrote:
>I have
>[HKLM\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows NT\CurrentVersion\Console\TrueTypeFont]
>"00"="DejaVu Sans Mono"

As near as I can tell the DejaVu Sans Mono font doesn't include Chinese
characters.  If you want to display Chinese characters in a console window
on Windows you'll probably have change the (global) system locale to an
appropriate Chinese locale and reboot.

Note that a complete Unicode console font is essentially an impossibility,
so don't bother looking for one.  There are many characters in Unicode
that can't be reasonably mappped to a single fixed-width "console" glyph.
There are also characters in Unicode that should be represented as
single-width gylphs in Western contexts, but as double-width glyphs in
Far-Eastern contexts.

					Ross Ridge

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