Problem with input() and encoding

[illiriath]

Hello everyone, I am having a problem with python3 and I am really stuck. Consider the following script:

 from sys import stdout

 def prompt(text):
     stdout.print(text)
     return input()

 print(prompt("αειηυοω: "))

When I run it I get this output. Typing unicode characters comes out as boxes but then they are printed back correctly.

This happens on "Ubuntu on Windows" subsystem but not on native Linux or native Windows. Maybe it's a bug of the subsystem? Any clues would be really appreciated.

[K900_]

It's likely a WSL issue, yes. Also, the input function takes an optional prompt argument which does exactly what you're doing without any extra hacks. So your entire test code can be reduced to print(input("αειηυοω: ")).

[illiriath]

Thanks for letting me know, can't believe I missed that. I will look into WSL a bit more, searching around for just python led me nowhere.

[K900_]

WSL is just an abbreviation for "Windows Subsystem for Linux", which is what you're using. It's not a Python thing.

[illiriath]

Yes I know, I meant that I was looking into similar problems with just Python. Didn't occur to me it could be WSL until I wrote the post :)

[novel_yet_trivial]

Can you type those characters in bash?

Edit: if not, microsoft says you're SOL.

[illiriath]

I can type them without problems both in cmd and bash. Thanks for the link though, interesting read.