I have a command line python application which reads japanese characters from the command line input. The problem is that the 'erase' key doesn't work very well, let me explain:
What happens is that, when I try to delete a kanji, the character seems to not be deleted: the character is actually deleted (I know this because I have debugged it) but it still appears in the command line. E.g., suppose I have the following characters:
四つください。
Now, if I press the erase key 3 times I get:
四つくださ
As you can see, only two characters have been deleted (the 。 and the い). However, if I press enter, the script interprets correctly that the only remaining characters are 四つくだ. So in other words, the 3 characters are actually deleted, but the さ is still visible in the terminal.
What can I do to solve this?
The problem gets fixed doing the following:
# In the terminal:
pip install readline
# In the script
import readline
Don't know why that fixes the problem, but it does.