Printing Unicode in eclipse Pydev console and in Idle

Question

My configuration: Win7 + Python 2.6 + eclipse + PyDev

How do I enable Unicode print statements in:

1. PyDev console in eclipse
2. Idle Python GUI

Answer 1

I was having the a same problem in Eclipse Luna 4.0.4 with Python 3.4.1 and PyDev 3.6.0. I tried the steps given above, and a few others, and was getting nowhere.

What worked for me was, in Eclipse, in Preferences —> PyDev —> Interpreters —> Python Interpreter, in the Environment tab, I added the environment variable PYTHONIOENCODING and specified its value as utf-8.

That did the trick for me…