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console w/ cp65001 displays extra characters for non-ascii strings. #58435
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| BPO | 14227 |
|---|---|
| Nosy | @loewis, @vstinner, @ezio-melotti |
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assignee = None
closed_at = <Date 2012-04-05.11:46:33.574>
created_at = <Date 2012-03-08.04:35:32.666>
labels = ['expert-unicode', 'type-bug', 'expert-IO', 'OS-windows']
title = 'console w/ cp65001 displays extra characters for non-ascii strings.'
updated_at = <Date 2012-04-05.11:46:33.573>
user = 'https://bugs.python.org/metolone'bugs.python.org fields:
activity = <Date 2012-04-05.11:46:33.573>
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components = ['Unicode', 'Windows', 'IO']
creation = <Date 2012-03-08.04:35:32.666>
creator = 'metolone'
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priority = 'normal'
resolution = 'duplicate'
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url = 'https://bugs.python.org/issue14227'
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metolone commentedon Mar 8, 2012
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.
vstinner commentedon Mar 8, 2012
See the issue bpo-1602.
vstinner commentedon Apr 5, 2012
I'm quite sure that this issue is a duplicate of bpo-1602.