Re: Printing UTF-8 mail to terminal

There's quite a lot of misuse of terminology around terminal / console
/ shell.  Please, correct me if I'm wrong, but it looks like you are
printing that on MS Windows, right?  MS Windows doesn't have or use
terminals (that's more of a Unix-related concept). And, by "terminal"
I mean terminal emulator (i.e. a program that emulates the behavior of
a physical terminal). You can, of course, find some terminal programs
for windows (eg. mintty), but I doubt that that's what you are dealing
with.

What MS Windows users usually end up using is the console.  If you
run, eg. cmd.exe, it will create a process that displays a graphical
console.  The console uses an encoding scheme to represent the text
output.  I believe that the default on MS Windows is to use some
single-byte encoding. This answer from SE family site tells you how to
set the console encoding to UTF-8 permanently:
https://superuser.com/questions/269818/change-default-code-page-of-windows-console-to-utf-8
, which, I believe, will solve your problem with how the text is
displayed.

On Thu, Oct 31, 2024 at 5:19 PM Loris Bennett via Python-list
<python-list@python.org> wrote:

>
Hi,
>
I have a command-line program which creates an email containing German
umlauts.  On receiving the mail, my mail client displays the subject and
body correctly:
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  Subject: Übung
>
  Sehr geehrter Herr Dr. Bennett,
>
  Dies ist eine Übung.
>
So far, so good.  However, when I use the --verbose option to print
the mail to the terminal via
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  if args.verbose:
      print(mail)
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I get:
>
  Subject: Übungsbetreff
>
  Sehr geehrter Herr Dr. Bennett,
>
  Dies ist eine =C3=9Cbung.
>
What do I need to do to prevent the body from getting mangled?
>
I seem to remember that I had issues in the past with a Perl version of
a similar program.  As far as I recall there was an issue with fact the
greeting is generated by querying a server, whereas the body is being
read from a file, which lead to oddities when the two bits were
concatenated.  But that might just have been a Perl thing.
>
Cheers,
>
Loris
>
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