Deal with DOS/Windows encoding

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From sherdim on 2011-02-11T16:13:01Z

What steps will reproduce the problem?

1. Run DOS command in IPython eg: !dir
   1. CMD window flashes (another issue) and stdout returned in the console with text in locale
   2. Output in ASCII? encoding, not Windows locale

The reason is default Russian DOS and Windows are different, 866 and 1251, respectively
Spyder assume UTF-8 as default, but in the console don't care about it
Usual IPython "DOS" console "knows" it, and %print magic deals with encodings

==Unicode==
In [56]: s=u'мамa'

In [57]: s
Out[57]: u'\u043c\u0430\u043ca'

In [58]: p s
мамa

==Default text==
In [59]: s='мамa'

In [60]: s
Out[60]: '\xd0\xbc\xd0\xb0\xd0\xbca'

In [61]: p s
мамa

What is the expected output?
the same as input

=cf. In the "DOS" IPython=
In [3]: s='мама'

In [4]: s
Out[4]: '\xac\xa0\xac\xa0'

In [5]: p s
мама

In [1]: s=u"мама"

In [2]: s
Out[2]: u'\xac\xa0\xac\xa0'

In [3]: p s
ERROR: An unexpected error occurred while tokenizing input
The following traceback may be corrupted or invalid

In [10]: p s.encode('1251')
мама

Spyder 2.0.6, Windows Vista

Original issue: http://code.google.com/p/spyderlib/issues/detail?id=556

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From pierre.raybaut on 2011-02-22T01:05:25Z

Regarding the flashing command window issue, see this: https://code.google.com/p/spyderlib/issues/detail?id=423 I'll get back later to the main issue here.
Thanks for taking the time to give feedback.

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From pierre.raybaut on 2011-05-16T01:27:58Z

Labels: Cat-Console

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From ccordoba12 on 2014-10-12T14:25:08Z

Labels: MS-v2.3.2

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From ccordoba12 on 2014-10-12T17:14:49Z

This is not an issue anymore for IPython but it is for our Python consoles

Status: Accepted

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From ccordoba12 on 2014-10-26T10:04:58Z

This issue was closed by revision e47a69abbc85 .

Status: Fixed