Unicode python Error

Question

i'm trying to print : Pokémon GO Việt Nam

print u"Pokémon GO Việt Nam"

and i'm getting :

print u"PokÚmon GO Vi?t Nam"
SyntaxError: (unicode error) 'utf8' codec can't decode byte 0xe9 in position 0: unexpected end of data

i've tried :

.encode("utf-8")
.decode("utf-8")
.decode('latin-1').encode("utf-8")
unicode(str.decode("iso-8859-4"))

My python version is 2.7.9 , Notepad++ UTF-8 encoding . with no luck , how can i print it ? and i'm encountering this kind of issues all the time , what's the proper way to debug and get the right encoding ?

What version of python are you using? I printed this using python 3.5 and it worked fine. — Chris
– Chris, Commented Aug 31, 2016 at 21:30
Are you typing it or are you getting it from a different source? Copying and pasting from SO yields correct results on both 2.7 and 3.5, on my OS. — Ben Beirut
– Ben Beirut, Commented Aug 31, 2016 at 21:32

Nir Alfasi · Accepted Answer · 2016-08-31 22:04:06Z

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#!/usr/bin/python
# -*- coding: utf-8 -*-

print "Pokémon GO Việt Nam"

You can find here more info

For PyCharm settings, go to the menu: PyCharm --> Preference then use the search to look up "encoding", you should reach the following screen:

edited Aug 31, 2016 at 22:04

answered Aug 31, 2016 at 21:32

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Brenda Martinez Over a year ago

yeah try that also , it work if we just print u"pokémon" but not "Pokémon GO Việt Nam"

Andrea Corbellini Over a year ago

@BrendaMartinez: what encoding is your editor using?

Nir Alfasi Over a year ago

@BrendaMartinez make sure that both your IDE encoding as well as the project encoding are set to 'utf-8'

Brenda Martinez Over a year ago

Utf-8 , notepad++

Nir Alfasi Over a year ago

@BrendaMartinez well notepad++ is another problem :) use a proper IDE such as PyCharm: you'll get all the benefits of IDE such as debugging and inspection capabilities as well as many other goodies.

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rafaelc · Accepted Answer · 2016-08-31 21:33:07Z

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Specify the encoding

#!/usr/bin/python
# -*- coding: utf-8 -*-

in the top of the program

answered Aug 31, 2016 at 21:33

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Brenda Martinez Over a year ago

yeah tried that also , it work if we just print u"pokémon" but not "Pokémon GO Việt Nam"

roeland · Accepted Answer · 2016-09-01 02:37:58Z

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As an alternative you can encode the unicode string:

print u"Pokémon GO Việt Nam".encode('utf-8')

The advantage is that the bytes in the resulting string are independent of the encoding of the source file: u"ệ".encode('utf-8') is always the same 3 bytes "\xe1\xbb\x87".

It is also consistent with what you'd do if you have an unicode string in a variable.

# get text from somewhere...
text = u"Pokémon GO Việt Nam"

# assuming your terminal expects UTF-8 -- this won't work on Windows.
print text.encode('utf-8')

answered Sep 1, 2016 at 2:37

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