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Author	vstinner
Recipients	amaury.forgeotdarc, loewis, vstinner
Date	2011-10-19.11:58:41
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Message-id	<1319025522.47.0.796194637014.issue13216@psf.upfronthosting.co.za>
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> I consider that it is useless to set the ANSI code page to 65001 in a console I did more tests on the Windows console, focused on output, see: http://bugs.python.org/issue1602#msg145898 I was wrong, it is useful to change the code page to 65001. Even if we have fully Unicode compliant sys.stdout and sys.stderr, setting the code page to CP_UTF8 (65001) does still improve Unicode support in some cases: - if the output (stdout and/or stderr) is redirected - if you encode Unicode to the console code page to use directly sys.stdout.buffer and sys.stderr.buffer

> I consider that it is useless to set the ANSI code page to 65001 in a console

I did more tests on the Windows console, focused on output, see:
http://bugs.python.org/issue1602#msg145898

I was wrong, it *is* useful to change the code page to 65001. Even if we have fully Unicode compliant sys.stdout and sys.stderr, setting the code page to CP_UTF8 (65001) does still improve Unicode support in some cases:

 - if the output (stdout and/or stderr) is redirected
 - if you encode Unicode to the console code page to use directly sys.stdout.buffer and sys.stderr.buffer

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Date	User	Action	Args
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