&gt; Many people don&#x27;t, though. Many people run their Python scripts in cmd.exe.<p>Did you know that cmd.exe supports unicode just fine?  It&#x27;s Python that does not (out of the box).  The development version of Click for instance supports input&#x2F;output in cmd.exe with both 2.x and 3.x.<p>Unicode is not a feature of Python 3.