Subj : Printing enhanced chars in python on rpi
To   : seeLive
From : opicron
Date : Wed Jan 05 2022 08:15 am

 se> Have any of you guys come across the problem of python not printing the co
 se> extended characters on a raspberry pi? The example would be Threatsentry.m
 se> it displays the world map find because it's an ansi file, but when it trie
 se> rint the box around the map the threat level data it's all garbage... 

I experienced the same with ichat, when trying to decode utf to ascii. Long
story short you have to do the conversions yourself. It is impossible to
expect Python to change the various UTF codes to the correct ascii tables.

Here is my conversion list, and my safeguard to replace other unknown
characters:

https://github.com/opicron/utf2ascii/blob/main/utf2ascii.py

oP!

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