Working with UTF-8 encoding in Python source
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Solution 1
In Python 3, UTF-8 is the default source encoding (see PEP 3120), so unicode characters can be used anywhere.
In Python 2, you can declare in the source code header:
# -*- coding: utf-8 -*-
....
It is described in the PEP 0263:
Then you can use UTF-8 in strings:
# -*- coding: utf-8 -*-
u = 'idzie wąż wąską dróżką'
uu = u.decode('utf8')
s = uu.encode('cp1250')
print(s)
In addition, it may be worth verifying that your text editor properly encodes your code in UTF-8. Otherwise, you may have invisible characters that are not interpreted as UTF-8.
Solution 2
Do not forget to verify if your text editor encodes properly your code in UTF-8.
Otherwise, you may have invisible characters that are not interpreted as UTF-8.
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Updated on February 05, 2022Comments
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Nullpoet about 2 years
Consider:
$ cat bla.py u = unicode('d…') s = u.encode('utf-8') print s $ python bla.py File "bla.py", line 1 SyntaxError: Non-ASCII character '\xe2' in file bla.py on line 1, but no encoding declared; see http://www.python.org/peps/pep-0263.html for details
How can I declare UTF-8 strings in source code?