Printing UTF-8 mail to terminal
Loris Bennett
loris.bennett at fu-berlin.de
Fri Nov 1 02:52:32 EDT 2024
Left Right <olegsivokon at gmail.com> writes:
> There's quite a lot of misuse of terminology around terminal / console
> / shell. Please, correct me if I'm wrong, but it looks like you are
> printing that on MS Windows, right? MS Windows doesn't have or use
> terminals (that's more of a Unix-related concept). And, by "terminal"
> I mean terminal emulator (i.e. a program that emulates the behavior of
> a physical terminal). You can, of course, find some terminal programs
> for windows (eg. mintty), but I doubt that that's what you are dealing
> with.
>
> What MS Windows users usually end up using is the console. If you
> run, eg. cmd.exe, it will create a process that displays a graphical
> console. The console uses an encoding scheme to represent the text
> output. I believe that the default on MS Windows is to use some
> single-byte encoding. This answer from SE family site tells you how to
> set the console encoding to UTF-8 permanently:
> https://superuser.com/questions/269818/change-default-code-page-of-windows-console-to-utf-8
> , which, I believe, will solve your problem with how the text is
> displayed.
I'm not using MS Windows. I am using a Gnome terminal on Debian 12
locally and connecting via SSH to a AlmaLinux 8 server, where I start a
tmux session.
> On Thu, Oct 31, 2024 at 5:19 PM Loris Bennett via Python-list
> <python-list at python.org> wrote:
>>
>> Hi,
>>
>> I have a command-line program which creates an email containing German
>> umlauts. On receiving the mail, my mail client displays the subject and
>> body correctly:
>>
>> Subject: Übung
>>
>> Sehr geehrter Herr Dr. Bennett,
>>
>> Dies ist eine Übung.
>>
>> So far, so good. However, when I use the --verbose option to print
>> the mail to the terminal via
>>
>> if args.verbose:
>> print(mail)
>>
>> I get:
>>
>> Subject: Übungsbetreff
>>
>> Sehr geehrter Herr Dr. Bennett,
>>
>> Dies ist eine =C3=9Cbung.
>>
>> What do I need to do to prevent the body from getting mangled?
>>
>> I seem to remember that I had issues in the past with a Perl version of
>> a similar program. As far as I recall there was an issue with fact the
>> greeting is generated by querying a server, whereas the body is being
>> read from a file, which lead to oddities when the two bits were
>> concatenated. But that might just have been a Perl thing.
>>
>> Cheers,
>>
>> Loris
>>
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