How to fix prettytable to display chinese character properly

[yjqiang]

https://stackoverflow.com/questions/23027595/how-to-fix-prettytable-to-display-chinese-character-properly
When I print some words which contain Chinese words and English words, and I want to display them properly, it is so hard to make it. Are there any simple ways to display them properly on Pythonista and other platform?

[yjqiang]

yjqiang/bilibili-live-tools#83
We tried to use prettytable on Windows, and it worked well. But it failed with Pathonista, so is it a bug?

[dgelessus]

I'm not an expert about fonts, but I'd guess that Pythonista's default console font doesn't support Chinese, so iOS has to use a different font for the Chinese characters. The character width of the automatically chosen Chinese font probably doesn't match that of the regular console font, which is probably why the table isn't aligned properly.

You could try manually setting the console to a Chinese font first, using console.set_font, so the font doesn't change in the middle of the text. I don't know if iOS has any Chinese monospace fonts installed by default though.

[yjqiang]

@dgelessus I tried, but it didn't work.