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Author	pitrou
Recipients	benjamin.peterson, docs@python, eric.araujo, ezio.melotti, gwideman, lemburg, pitrou, tshepang, vstinner
Date	2014-03-22.00:56:44
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Message-id	<1395449804.78.0.352952444937.issue20906@psf.upfronthosting.co.za>
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> "UnicodeEncodeError: 'charmap' codec can't encode character '\u265e' in position 13: character maps to undefined". That's because stdout is treated as a regular bytestream under Windows (as it is under POSIX), and it therefore uses the current "codepage" to encode unicode strings. See issue1602. > And why does it work as intended on linux? Because under most current Linux systems, stdout's encoding will be utf-8, and therefore it will be able to represent the given unicode chars.

> "UnicodeEncodeError: 'charmap' codec can't encode character '\u265e' in position 13: character maps to undefined". 

That's because stdout is treated as a regular bytestream under Windows (as it is under POSIX), and it therefore uses the current "codepage" to encode unicode strings. See issue1602.

> And why does it work as intended on linux?

Because under most current Linux systems, stdout's encoding will be utf-8, and therefore it will be able to represent the given unicode chars.

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Date	User	Action	Args
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