[Python-Dev] Python dies upon printing UNICODE using UTF-8 (original) (raw)

Moore, Paul Paul.Moore@atosorigin.com
Wed, 16 Apr 2003 15:53:24 +0100

From: Duncan Booth [mailto:duncan@rcp.co.uk]

I think its a problem with windows, or with the C runtime rather than=20 Python. The line editing is handled by the system and is obviously = screwy.=20 Python is interpreting what you entered as signalling end of file. = Call=20 rawinput and type your text there and you will get an EOFError.

Too right something's screwy. But it's not just in the interactive interpreter. It goes wrong when run from a file, with no non-ascii characters in the script, as well.

See the attached transcript.

I don't doubt that it's some sort of Windows/CRT problem, but maybe it's fixable within Python...?

Paul

--- session transcript ---

C:\Data

chcp Active code page: 65001

C:\Data

testutf8.py h=F2l=E1 Traceback (most recent call last): File "C:\Data\testutf8.py", line 1, in ? print u'h\xf2l\xe1'.encode("utf-8") IOError: [Errno 2] No such file or directory

C:\Data

type testutf8.py print u'h\xf2l\xe1'.encode("utf-8")