I have an unexpected display error when dealing with Unicode strings, and
I cannot understand where the error is occurring. I suspect it's not
actually a Python issue, but I thought I'd ask here to start.
Using Python 3.3, if I print a unicode string from the command line, it
displays correctly. I'm using the KDE 3.5 Konsole application, with the
encoding set to the default (which ought to be UTF-8, I believe, although
I'm not completely sure). This displays correctly:
[steve@ando ~]$ python3.3 -c "print(u'ñøλπйж')"
ñøλπйж
Likewise for Python 3.2:
[steve@ando ~]$ python3.2 -c "print('ñøλπйж')"
ñøλπйж
But using Python 2.7, I get a really bad case of moji-bake:
[steve@ando ~]$ python2.7 -c "print u'ñøλπйж'"
ñøλÏйж
However, interactively it works fine:
[steve@ando ~]$ python2.7 -E
Python 2.7.2 (default, May 18 2012, 18:25:10)
[GCC 4.1.2 20080704 (Red Hat 4.1.2-52)] on linux2
Type "help", "copyright", "credits" or "license" for more information.
>>> print u'ñøλπйж'
ñøλπйж
This occurs on at least two different machines, one using Centos and the
other Debian.
Anyone have any idea what's going on? I can replicate the display error
using Python 3 like this:
py> s = 'ñøλπйж'
py> print(s.encode('utf-8').decode('latin-1'))
ñøλÏйж
but I'm not sure why it's happening at the command line. Anyone have any
ideas?
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