Remvoe win_unicode_console support

The new Windows terminal solves the problem
of unicode on windows much better

setup.py

@@ -398,7 +398,6 @@ def main():
         skw["extras_require"] = {
             "ptk": ["prompt-toolkit"],
             "pygments": ["pygments>=2.2"],
-            "win": ["win_unicode_console"],
             "mac": ["gnureadline"],
             "linux": ["distro"],
             "proctitle": ["setproctitle"],

xonsh/environ.py

@@ -59,7 +59,6 @@ from xonsh.tools import (
     bool_seq_to_csv,
     DefaultNotGiven,
     print_exception,
-    setup_win_unicode_console,
     intensify_colors_on_win_setter,
     is_dynamic_cwd_width,
     to_dynamic_cwd_tuple,
@@ -578,7 +577,6 @@ def DEFAULT_ENSURERS():
         "VC_HG_SHOW_BRANCH": (is_bool, to_bool, bool_to_str),
         "VI_MODE": (is_bool, to_bool, bool_to_str),
         "VIRTUAL_ENV": (is_string, ensure_string, ensure_string),
-        "WIN_UNICODE_CONSOLE": (always_false, setup_win_unicode_console, bool_to_str),
         "XONSHRC": (is_env_path, str_to_env_path, env_path_to_str),
         "XONSH_APPEND_NEWLINE": (is_bool, to_bool, bool_to_str),
         "XONSH_AUTOPAIR": (is_bool, to_bool, bool_to_str),
@@ -762,7 +760,6 @@ def DEFAULT_VALUES():
         "VC_BRANCH_TIMEOUT": 0.2 if ON_WINDOWS else 0.1,
         "VC_HG_SHOW_BRANCH": True,
         "VI_MODE": False,
-        "WIN_UNICODE_CONSOLE": True,
         "XDG_CONFIG_HOME": os.path.expanduser(os.path.join("~", ".config")),
         "XDG_DATA_HOME": os.path.expanduser(os.path.join("~", ".local", "share")),
         "XONSHRC": default_xonshrc,
@@ -1194,11 +1191,6 @@ def DEFAULT_DOCS():
         "VIRTUAL_ENV": VarDocs(
             "Path to the currently active Python environment.", configurable=False
         ),
-        "WIN_UNICODE_CONSOLE": VarDocs(
-            "Enables unicode support in windows terminals. Requires the external "
-            "library ``win_unicode_console``.",
-            configurable=ON_WINDOWS,
-        ),
         "XDG_CONFIG_HOME": VarDocs(
             "Open desktop standard configuration home dir. This is the same "
             "default as used in the standard.",

xonsh/main.py

@@ -17,7 +17,7 @@ from xonsh.pretty import pretty
 from xonsh.execer import Execer
 from xonsh.proc import HiddenCommandPipeline
 from xonsh.jobs import ignore_sigtstp
-from xonsh.tools import setup_win_unicode_console, print_color, to_bool_or_int
+from xonsh.tools import print_color, to_bool_or_int
 from xonsh.platform import HAS_PYGMENTS, ON_WINDOWS
 from xonsh.codecache import run_script_with_cache, run_code_with_cache
 from xonsh.xonfig import print_welcome_screen
@@ -356,8 +356,6 @@ def premain(argv=None):
     env["XONSH_INTERACTIVE"] = args.force_interactive or (
         args.mode == XonshMode.interactive
     )
-    if ON_WINDOWS:
-        setup_win_unicode_console(env.get("WIN_UNICODE_CONSOLE", True))
     return args
 
 
@@ -462,8 +460,6 @@ def main_xonsh(args):
 
 def postmain(args=None):
     """Teardown for main xonsh entry point, accepts parsed arguments."""
-    if ON_WINDOWS:
-        setup_win_unicode_console(enable=False)
     builtins.__xonsh__.shell = None
 
 

xonsh/tools.py

@@ -1556,21 +1556,6 @@ def dict_to_str(x):
     return str(x)
 
 
-def setup_win_unicode_console(enable):
-    """"Enables or disables unicode display on windows."""
-    try:
-        import win_unicode_console
-    except ImportError:
-        win_unicode_console = False
-    enable = to_bool(enable)
-    if ON_WINDOWS and win_unicode_console:
-        if enable:
-            win_unicode_console.enable()
-        else:
-            win_unicode_console.disable()
-    return enable
-
-
 # history validation
 
 _min_to_sec = lambda x: 60.0 * float(x)