#!/usr/bin/env python3 # -*- coding: utf-8 -*- """ Originated from a forumpost: http://dbwebb.se/forum/posting.php?mode=reply&f=44&t=4552 On Cygwin doing backspace of an utf-8 character such as 'ö' will fail with error message: $ python3 test_input.py --> Traceback (most recent call last): File "p.py", line 8, in a = input("-->") UnicodeDecodeError: 'utf-8' codec can't decode byte 0xc3 in position 0: unexpected end of data """ a = input("-->") print(repr(a))