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Asked: 2026-05-16T05:04:52+00:00

print Español\nPortuguês\nItaliano.encode(‘utf-8’) Errors: Traceback (most recent call last): File , line 1, in print

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print "Español\nPortuguês\nItaliano".encode('utf-8')

Errors:

Traceback (most recent call last):
File “”, line 1, in
print “Español\nPortuguês\nItaliano”.encode(‘utf-8’)
UnicodeDecodeError: ‘ascii’ codec can’t decode byte 0xf1 in position 4: ordinal not in range(128)

I’m trying to make a multilingual console program in Windows. Is this possible?
I’ve saved the file in utf-8 encoding as well, I get the same error.

*EDIT
I”m just outputting text in this program. I change to lucida fonts, I keep getting this:
alt text http://img826.imageshack.us/img826/7312/foreignlangwindowsconso.png

I’m just looking for a portable way to correctly display foreign languages in the console in windows. If it can do it cross platform, even better. I thought utf-8 was the answer, but all of you are telling me fonts, etc.. also plays a part. So anyone have a definitive answer?

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  1. Editorial Team

    First of all, in Python 2.x you can’t encode a str that has non-ASCII characters. You have to write

    print u"Español\nPortuguês\nItaliano".encode('utf-8')

    Using UTF-8 at the Windows console is difficult.

    • You have to set the Command Prompt font to a Unicode font (of which the only one available by default is Lucida Console), or else you get IBM437 encoding anyway.
    • chcp 65001
    • Modify encodings._aliases to treat “cp65001” as an alias of UTF-8.

    And even then, it doesn’t seem to work right.

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