How can I display native accents to languages in console in windows?

Question

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

Errors:

Traceback (most recent call last): File \"\", line 1,

Answer 1

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.