Getting strange characters in the command prompt

[sebb]

For information, I have windows xp (english edition).

When I use special non-english characters (like é à è ...) in my
python code, IDLE tells me to add a line like:

# -*- coding: cp1252 -*-

.... because of the presence of non-ASCII characters.

When I write a script like the folowing:

# -*- coding: cp1252 -*-
print "é à è"

.... and I run it in the windows command prompt, I get strange
characters I didn't ask for.

And when I write those non-English characters (é à è) directly in the
command prompt, I get the correct characters.

Can anyone help we with that problem?

 

[Irmen de Jong]

sebb wrote:

[...]

... and I run it in the windows command prompt, I get strange
characters I didn't ask for.

And when I write those non-English characters (é à è) directly in the
command prompt, I get the correct characters.

Can anyone help we with that problem?

Does executing

chcp 1252

before running your python program help?
The windows console is not set to code page 1252 by default
as far as I know, but some other windows-specific encoding.

--Irmen

 

[Martin v. Loewis]

# -*- coding: cp1252 -*-
print "é à è"

... and I run it in the windows command prompt, I get strange
characters I didn't ask for.
[...]
Can anyone help we with that problem?

As Irmen explains, this is because cmd.exe uses code page 850
(on your installation). You should write

print u"é à è"

Regards,
Martin

 

[sebb]

Thanks a lot