Sublime Text console not showing lines with accents

Question

In Sublime Text 2 and 3, the console output doesn\'t show the lines with accents on it:

  

Answer 1

It seems fixed with Sublime Text 3.2.2 build 3211: when I open test.py containing:

print("1")
print("á")
print("2")

then when building with CTRL+B (using Python 3.6), then it works normally, out-of-the-box.

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Remark: the default Python.sublime-build is indeed now:

{
    "shell_cmd": "python -u \"$file\"",
    "file_regex": "^[ ]*File \"(...*?)\", line ([0-9]*)",
    "selector": "source.python",

    "env": {"PYTHONIOENCODING": "utf-8"},

    "variants":
    [
        {
            "name": "Syntax Check",
            "shell_cmd": "python -m py_compile \"${file}\"",
        }
    ]
}

Answer 2

The cleaner solution is to specify the encoding as a part of the build settings

{   
    "cmd": ["python", "-u", "$file"],
    "file_regex": "^[ ]*File \"(...*?)\", line ([0-9]*)",
    "selector": "source.python",
    "env": {
        "PYTHONIOENCODING": "utf_8"
    },
}

This works in most cases. But in certain cases you may need to remove the -u which is basically to stop unbuffered output, as it may cause issues

See below thread for discussion on a similar issue

Python 2.7 build on Sublime Text 3 doesn't print the '\uFFFD' character

Answer 3

Set the encoding of standard system output in your document to UTF-8:

import sys
import codecs

sys.stdout = codecs.getwriter( "utf-8" )( sys.stdout.detach() )

print( "1" )
print( "áéíóúý âêîôû äëïöü àèìòù ãñõ" )
print( "2" )

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To automatically apply UTF-8 encoded output to all documents, implement the previous method as an inline command within your Python.sublime-build file.

After the encoding has been set, your document is loaded via exec within the inline command.

{
    "cmd": [ "python", "-u", "-c", "import sys; import codecs; sys.stdout = codecs.getwriter( 'utf-8' )( sys.stdout.detach() ); exec( compile( open( r'$file', 'rb' ).read(), r'$file', 'exec'), globals(), locals() )" ],
    "file_regex": "^[ ]*File \"(...*?)\", line ([0-9]*)",
    "selector": "source.python",

    "variants":
    [
        {
            "name": "Syntax Check",
            "shell_cmd": "python -m py_compile \"${file}\"",
        }
    ]
}

Tip: Use PackageResourceViewer to create a user copy of Python.sublime-build

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Tested with Sublime Text 3 ( Stable Channel, Build 3103 ) and Python 3.4.3

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Sources:

How to set sys.stdout encoding in Python 3?

Alternative to execfile in Python 3?