Feature Requests item #3516383, was opened at 2012-04-10 03:26 Message generated for change (Comment added) made by valhallasw You can respond by visiting: https://sourceforge.net/tracker/?func=detail&atid=603141&aid=3516383...

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Private: No 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: 2012-04-16 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-causes...] 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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