Can't print Unicode Bitcoin symbol in Python 2

Question

I am trying to print the Unicode Bitcoin symbol \\u2043 in Python 2. I have tried adding #-*- coding: utf-8 -*-.

$ python2 -c \'pr         


        

Answer 1

On Unix, if sys.stdout.isatty() returns True but sys.stdout.encoding is 'ANSI_X3.4-1968' (ascii) then you should configure your locale (check LANG, LC_CTYPE, LC_ALL envvars) to use non-ascii encoding if you need to print non-ascii characters.

If sys.stdout.isatty() is false then configure PYTHONIOENCODING envvar outside your script.
Always print Unicode, don't hardcode the character encoding of your environment inside your script.