why does escape character \b shows an unknown character?

Question

i have a simple line of code

 print("Hello \bWorld!") 

and the output instead of HelloWorld! is

what is the problem ? im using python 3.5. i took the code from w3school.com

Answer 1

Your console output is incapeable of displaying the '\b'. This has nothing to do with python.

It works in Visual Studio: You can verify it by setting a breakpoint in your debugger and inspect the value (most IDEs have UTF-8 support) - the windows console f.e. has not.

Debugging output in Visual Studio:

vs. console output in windows:

and (here it looks like yours)

for

k = "Hello \bWorld!"
print(k)