Feature Requests item #3516383, was opened at 2012-04-10 03:26
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Status: Open
Priority: 4
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Submitted By: Nobody/Anonymous (nobody)
Assigned to: Nobody/Anonymous (nobody)
Summary: Support for transliteration in console output
Initial Comment:
Since some days/weeks ago, I can't get non-latin characters to be displayed in the
Windows console. Usually, they would be transliterated and in yellow, but now I only see
either question marks or blocks (if I use an Unicode font). There is an exception for
Greek characters which are displayed correctly if I use an Unicode font. As of now, I
can't confirm an interwiki link in Cyrilic simply because I can't see what text is
in [[ru:????????]].
I use the cp850 encoding. Using cp65001 is not supported by Pywikipedia.
It would be great to get the transliteration feature back working. For instance, r9974
worked fine.
Comment on config.py:
############## USER INTERFACE SETTINGS ##############
# The encoding that's used in the user's console, i.e. how strings are encoded
# when they are read by raw_input(). On Windows systems' DOS box, this should
# be 'cp850' ('cp437' for older versions). Linux users might try
'iso-8859-1'
# or 'utf-8'.
# This default code should work fine, so you don't have to think about it.
# TODO: consider getting rid of this config variable.
Python 2.7.2 (default, Jun 12 2011, 14:24:46) [MSC v.1500 64 bit (AMD64)]
config-settings:
use_api = True
use_api_login = True
unicode test: ok
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Comment By: Merlijn S. van Deen (valhallasw)
Date: 2012-05-05 12:24
Message:
Implemented in r10187. Please see
http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Manual:Pywikipediabot/Windows on how to set
user-config.py.
Please note that the blocks you see are correct -- you can copy them to the
browser and visit that page, which is impossible with transliterated
characters!
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Comment By: Merlijn S. van Deen (valhallasw)
Date: 2012-04-16 03:41
Message:
I'm moving this to feature requests with a lower priority. In the current
setup, we output the correct characters, but your font is unable to
correctly render them. However, copying does work, and I think this is more
useful than transliterated characters.
Checking if an interwiki link is correct is not possible using
transliterations, but is possible by copy-pasting the unicode characters.
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Comment By: xqt (xqt)
Date: 2012-04-10 05:24
Message:
Try reverting r10048 of terminal_interface_base.py to the previous r10047.
I found it helps and gives the right transliterations. Could you verify?
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Comment By: André Malafaya Baptista (malafaya)
Date: 2012-04-10 04:30
Message:
Not really. Lucida Console doesn't show Cyrilic or Georgian or Arabic.
AFAICT, it only shows Latin and Greek.
It got better with DejaVu Sans Mono [check
http://stackoverflow.com/questions/878972/windows-cmd-encoding-change-cause…]
but I still see some unsupported characters showing up sometimes.
Is there a complete mono font out there (free)?
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Comment By: Bináris (binbot)
Date: 2012-04-10 03:31
Message:
Set your console character set to Consolas or Lucida instead of raster
fonts at the properties, and you will find it better than earlier. :-)
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Comment By: André Malafaya Baptista (malafaya)
Date: 2012-04-10 03:27
Message:
Sorry, that was me. I forgot to login.
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