General Nerdiness Questions

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#1

I’ve got two questions that are (admittely) well-beyond my current learning level ,but hey that’s how I roll.

Q1: I use VSCode and when I run my code it just scrolls off the top of the output widow. In addition to being nerdy, I tend a little toward CDO (OCD in the correct letter order) and want my screen clear; so, I’m force to click the ‘clear output’. I know a trick that works in the cmd terminal, but would like to have a code snippet I could plop in and do it programatically as I go through the courses. (Something like the builtin editor does when we ‘save’.)

Q2: Every so often we well get characters in the projects that are not ASCII format that include the umlauts, accents, tilde and such (UTF-8 I believe). How do I force display in the output of these various diacritics?

TIA for indulging my eccentricities so early in my learning.

#2

TBH, your eccentricities are of no concern to us. In fact none of what you go through from day to day matters a tinkers nail. We deal with code and learning code. Don’t make this about you.

#3

Check out this question on StackOverflow for a good answer.

#4

Then stop create code problems that fail.

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#5

I appreciate that, but I’m not looking to convert a file. I’m looking to have VSCode properly render beyond 128th character.

By example, this lesson has a small letter e with acute (é) in the painting named Vétheuil in the Fog.

I had done some searching and thought I found a solution by including # coding=UTF-8 at the beginning of the python code. Alas, that didn’t work and the character is still misrepresented with a placeholder (�).

#6

This is about a coding solution to problems.

And, OF COURSE, it’s about me. It’s about me wanting to learn CODE to deal with my CODE.

#7

If you are on Windows 10, you should be able to fix this in the settings.

Go to your regional settings, scroll down to “Related settings” and click “Additional date, time & regional settings”:

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Then click on Region again:
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Then go to the “Administrative” tab and click “Change system locale…”:

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You should see an option to use the Beta feature that makes Windows use Unicode UTF-8:
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Select that and hit OK, then Apply.

You should be good to go.

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#8

You are a godsend. TY TY TY

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