Console script in windows can't take unicode arguments[BUG]

setuptools version

60.4.2

Python version

3.9

OS

Windows10

Additional environment information

No response

Description

setup.py consolescripts can’t take unicode command line arguments on windows, while the respective .py file can.

e.g. all_dl.py

console_script in setup.py: all-dl=all_dl:main

def main(): print(sys.argv[1])

if name == “main”: main()

python all_dl.py एक परिचय

ouputs एक परिचय.

but

all-dl एक परिचय.

outputs ???

Expected behavior

The latter output should be similar to former

How to Reproduce

1. Write the small py file
2. make a console script for that file
3. pass unicode arg to py file and the exe file
4. See the difference

Output

1st case - एक परिचय. 2nd case - ???

[uranusjr]

To correctly take input and print output of a given character range, you must use a console capable of receiving and emitting an encoding covering the character range, and have your application use that encoding. There are modern tools on Windows that can handle this correctly, but your environment may not.

The bottom line is, this is not a bug in pip (or setuptools, or distlib, or Python), but just how old Windows things do not handle non-ASCII well. You may have better luck finding help on a general Python Q&A forum, or a local user group (where people tend to have more experience dealing with the local language).

[abravalheri]

Thank you very much @uranusjr for clarifying the problem.

I think I will go ahead and close this issue, since there isn’t a direct action point.