I've tried io, repr() etc, they don't work!

Problem inputting å (\xe5):

(None of these work)

import sys

print(sys.stdin.read(1))

sys.stdin = io.TextIOWrapper(sys.stdin.detach(), errors='replace', encoding='iso-8859-1', newline='\n')

print(sys.stdin.read(1))

x = sys.stdin.buffer.read(1)

print(x.decode('utf-8'))

They all give me roughly UnicodeDecodeError: 'utf-8' codec can't decode byte 0xe5 in position 0: unexpected end of data

Also tried starting Python with: export PYTHONIOENCODING=utf-8 doesn't work either.

Now, here's where i'm at:

import sys, codecs

sys.stdout = codecs.getwriter("utf-8")(sys.stdout.detach())

sys.stdin = codecs.getwriter("utf-8")(sys.stdin.detach())

x = sys.stdin.read(1)

print(x.decode('utf-8', 'replace'))

This gives me: �

It's close...

How can i take a \xe5 and turn it into å in my console?

Without it breaking input() as well, because this solution breaks it.

Note: I know this has been asked before, but non of those solve it.. especially not io

Some info of my system

os.environ['LANG'] == 'C'

sys.getdefaultencoding() == 'utf-8'

sys.stdout.encoding == 'ANSI_X3.4-1968'

sys.stdin.encoding == 'ANSI_X3.4-1968'

My os: ArchLinux running xterm

Running locale -a gives me: C | POSIX | sv_SE.utf8

I've followed these:

(and a few 50 more)

Solution (sort of, still breaks input())

sys.stdout = codecs.getwriter("latin-1")(sys.stdout.detach())

sys.stdin = codecs.getwriter("latin-1")(sys.stdin.detach())

x = sys.stdin.read(1)

print(x.decode('latin-1', 'replace'))

Went with a programatical approach in Python3 instead of changing the terminals codec:

import sys, codecs

sys.stdout = codecs.getwriter("latin-1")(sys.stdout.detach())

sys.stdin = codecs.getwriter("latin-1")(sys.stdin.detach())

sys.stdout.write(sys.stdin.read(1).decode('latin-1', 'replace'))

This does not only make you choose/match against your terminals "encoding", it actually requires no outside influence (such as export LANG=sv_SE.ISO-8859-1).

The only downside:

input('something: ')

Will break, fix for that is:

# Since it's bad practice to name function the

# same as __builtins__, we'll go ahead and call it something

# we're used to but isn't in use any more.

def raw_input(txt):

sys.stdout.write(txt)

sys.stdout.flush()

sys.stdin.flush()

return sys.stdin.readline().strip()

A big thanks to Martijn for telling why and that in fact the data is latin-1!

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