On 20 March 2013 23:53, Steven D'Aprano <st...@pearwood.info> wrote: > I also note that in the last few weeks, I've seen at least two instances > that I recall of a beginner on the tu...@python.org mailing list being > utterly confused by Python's Unicode handling because the Windows command > prompt is unable to print Unicode strings.
It can be worst than that - in i18nes Windows installs, the DOS Prompt sometimes have a different encoding than the Windows running - for example, for pt_BR Windows, all UI apps run using latin1, but the CP uses a CP850 encoding which generates _different_ characters for the same codes. As someone who form times to times lecture a introductory workshop of Python to people running Windows, I second Terry's long message - and I highlight Raymond's """ Without IDLE, a shocking number of people would create Python files using notepad. """ js -><- > > > Thanks Terry. _______________________________________________ Python-Dev mailing list Python-Dev@python.org http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-dev Unsubscribe: http://mail.python.org/mailman/options/python-dev/archive%40mail-archive.com