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

Short answer:

# -*- coding: utf-8 -*-
print u"Español\nPortuguês\nItaliano".encode('utf-8')

The first line tells Python that your file is encoded in UTF-8 (your editor must use the same settings) and this line should always be on the beginning of your file.

Another thing is that Python 2 knows two different basestring objects - str and unicode. The u prefix will create such a unicode object instead of the default str object, which you can then encode as UTF-8 (but printing unicode objects directly should also work).