Help me understand why Unicode only works sometimes with Python

Question

Here\'s a little program:

#!/usr/bin/env python
# -*- encoding: utf-8 -*-

print(\'abcd kΩ ☠ °C √Hz µF ü ☃ ♥\')  
print(u\'abcd kΩ ☠ °C √Hz µF ü ☃ ♥\')
         


        

Answer 1

Unicode output from Python to the Windows console just doesn't work. Python can't be persuaded to emit the native Windows encoding which expects wide characters and UCS2.