Thank you John and Tim.
With your help I found that the XP console code page is set up for 'cp437' and
with a little bit of browsing I found that 869 is the code page for Modern
Greek. After changing it to 869 that did the trick! Thanks very much for this
advice.
This brings up another question. If I run some Python code that starts off
with 'os.system('cp869')' so it will change to the correct code page, then when
it starts printing the Greek characters it breaks. But run the same Python
code again and it works fine. Is there another way to do this so I can change
over to the 869 code page and continue on with the Greek letters printing
correctly?
Thanks Tim for the info about the CONFIG.NT file as well as the curses-like
info. I'll continue to research these.
Thanks again!
Jay
> CONFIG.NT only affects 16-bit programs running in the NTVDM (the Virtual
> DOS Machine).
> 32-bit console apps (which Python is) simply cannot use ANSI escape
> sequences. You have to use the Win32 APIs to do color. There are
> curses-like libraries available for Python. Or:
> http://www.effbot.org/zone/console-handbook.htm
> --
> Tim Roberts, timr at probo.com
> Providenza & Boekelheide, Inc.
--
http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
