Subj : Re: python3 not printing extended chars
To   : Travis Mehrer
From : Clive Reuben
Date : Fri Oct 14 2022 01:14 pm

On 13 Oct 2022, Travis Mehrer said the following...
 
 TM> On 06 Oct 2022, Clive Reuben said the following...
 TM>  
 TM>  CR> Hey g00r00, I was wondering if you knew of a reason that embedded
 TM>  CR> python3 would not be able to print extended characters... e.g. if I d
 TM>  CR> 
 TM>  CR> "write(chr(177))" it will print garbage.... 
 TM> 
 TM> I can somewhat confirm this; however, it's worth noting that since
 TM> Python 3 uses unicode by default chr() doesn't behave the same as in
 TM> Python 2. chr() will output the unicode character of that number.
 TM> 
 TM> In a terminal you could use something like b'xc0'.decode('cp437') (sorry
 TM> that's just the hex code for the character I was testing with) to output
 TM> an ANSI character. But this also doesn't seem to output as expected with
 TM> mpy.

Hey Travis, That's a very good point and would tend to confirm my suspicion. Thanks, for the response!

-seeLive

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