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- Subject: Re: UTF-8 on windows terminal
- From: Scott Morgan <blumf@...>
- Date: Mon, 13 Jul 2020 01:59:26 +0100
On 12/07/2020 21:04, Milind Gupta wrote:
> How can I emulate the python encode function?
> Why does that work on the windows cmd and utf8.codepoint does not?
>
tl;dr CMD.EXE isn't fully UTF8 compliant. No idea what tricks Python is
pulling (recoding from a local codepage? Possible if you didn't chcp
65001 first)
AFAIK, this is the last word on the issue:
https://devblogs.microsoft.com/commandline/windows-command-line-unicode-and-utf-8-output-text-buffer/
> The current changes also don’t cover what is required for our “processed input mode” that presents an editable input line for applications like CMD.exe.
