The following perl program works when I run it from urxvt-X console on cygwin-x windows
LC_CTYPE=en_US.UTF-8 urxvt-X.exe& perl -wle "binmode STDOUT, q[:utf8]; print chr() for 0x410 .. 0x430;" This little one liner prints the Russian alphabet in Cryllic. With some slight modification it will also print a lot of other alphabets too -- including Hebrew, chinese and japanese. It does not work with cmd.exe because apparently cmd.exe cannot deal with UTF-8. Can someone help me translate it into python? I would not expect it to work from cmd.exe with python, but I am hopeful it will work with urxvt-X! Thanks, Siegfried -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
