Issue 14227: console w/ cp65001 displays extra characters for non-ascii strings. (original) (raw)

This is on Windows 7 SP1. Run 'chcp 65001' then Python from a console. Note the extra characters when non-ASCII characters are in the string. At a guess it appears to be using the UTF-8 byte length of the internal representation instead of the character count.

Python 3.3.0a1 (default, Mar 4 2012, 17:27:59) [MSC v.1500 32 bit (Intel)] on win32 Type "help", "copyright", "credits" or "license" for more information.

print('hello') hello print('p\u012bny\u012bn') pīnyīn n print('\u012b'*10) īīīīīīīīīī �īīīī �ī