Read Unicode characters from command-line arguments in Python 2.x on Windows

Question

I want my Python script to be able to read Unicode command line arguments in Windows. But it appears that sys.argv is a string encoded in some local encoding, rather than Un

Answer 1

Try this:

import sys
print repr(sys.argv[1].decode('UTF-8'))

Maybe you have to substitute CP437 or CP1252 for UTF-8. You should be able to infer the proper encoding name from the registry key HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SYSTEM\CurrentControlSet\Control\Nls\CodePage\OEMCP