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|    Clive Reuben to Travis Mehrer    |
|    Re: python3 not printing extended chars    |
|    14 Oct 22 13:14:12    |
   
   TID: Mystic BBS 1.12 A48   
   MSGID: 1:142/104 ea59d19d   
   REPLY: 1:134/303 4bf6005f   
   TZUTC: -0400   
   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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