[GitHub] [arrow] wjones127 opened a new issue, #34438: [C++] Printing unicode characters can be confusing

["wjones127 (via GitHub)" <gi...@apache.org>]

wjones127 opened a new issue, #34438:
URL: https://github.com/apache/arrow/issues/34438

   ### Describe the enhancement requested
   
   The way that C++ prints out some characters can be confusing:
   
   
   ```
   import pyarrow as pa
   
   arr = pa.array([" ", "\u0080", "\u0081", "\u0082"])
   
   print(arr)
   ```
   
   ```
   [
     " ",
     "€",
     "",
     "‚"
   ]
   ```
   
   Though this displays the ? symbol in the browser, in terminals it looks indistinguishable from:
   
   ```
   [
     " ",
     " ",
     " ",
     " "
   ]
   ```
   
   Versus Python:
   ```
   print(arr.to_pylist())
   ```
   
   ```
   
   [' ', '\x80', '\x81', '\x82']
   ```
   
   ### Component(s)
   
   C++


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