Question

#!/usr/bin/env python
# -*- coding: utf8 -*-
print "私"
print u"私"

the result:

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UnicodeEncodeError: 'ascii' codec can't encode character u'\u79c1' in position 0: ordinal not in range(128)

Or, in Idle for both u”私” and “私”:

>>> print "私"
Unsupported characters in input

I’ve followed all the advice I could find which says that I have to put the “coding” line under the shebang. All my web-browsers display kanji fine, and I can type it fine. But this garble comes out when I try and use it in Python 🙁 Any ideas?

Answer 1

You need a terminal or IDE that supports UTF8, or at least an encoding that supports Japanese. PythonWin, from the Pywin32 extension library, is an IDE that will work.