non-ascii character symbol

[amaurydar]

show `$"\240";

Nothing is displayed if I do this in a notebook, while it works in the console.

The notebook log says

    UnicodeDecodeError: 'utf-8' codec can't decode byte 0xa0 in position 26: invalid start byte

[jhanna-kx]

Hi,
Yes the character encoding for notebooks is utf-8 so all output must be valid Unicode, we could handle invalid cases like this by attempting to decode in the kernel before sending to the notebook front end,

e.g.

q)decode:{.p.eval["bytes"][`:decode;<]["x"$x;`errors pykw `backslashreplace]}
q)decode"\240"
"\\xa0"

If that works for you we'll add it in the next release

[amaurydar]

Yes that works great.

Thanks!

[jhanna-kx]

this was added to release 1.1.3