How to print Unicode character in Python

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I want to make a dictionary where English words point to Russian and French translations    How do I print out unicode characters in Python   Also  how do you store unicode chars in a variable

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To include Unicode characters in your Python source code, you can use Unicode escape characters in the form \u0123 in your string. In Python 2.x, you also need to prefix the string literal with 'u'.

Here's an example running in the Python 2.x interactive console:

>>> print u'\u0420\u043e\u0441\u0441\u0438\u044f'
??????

In Python 2, prefixing a string with 'u' declares them as Unicode-type variables, as described in the Python Unicode documentation.

In Python 3, the 'u' prefix is now optional:

>>> print('\u0420\u043e\u0441\u0441\u0438\u044f')
??????

If running the above commands doesn't display the text correctly for you, perhaps your terminal isn't capable of displaying Unicode characters.

These examples use Unicode escapes (\u...), which allows you to print Unicode characters while keeping your source code as plain ASCII. This can help when working with the same source code on different systems. You can also use Unicode characters directly in your Python source code (e.g. print u'??????' in Python 2), if you are confident all your systems handle Unicode files properly.

For information about reading Unicode data from a file, see this answer:

Character reading from file in Python

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In Python 2  you declare unicode strings with a u  as in u    and use decode   and encode   to translate to and from unicode  respectively   It s quite a bit easier in Python 3  A very good overview can be found here   That presentation clarified a lot of things for me

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I use Portable winpython in Windows  it includes IPython QT console  I could achieve the following    gt  gt  gt print             gt  gt  gt print                 gt  gt  gt str           gt  gt  gt print  str       your console interpreter should support unicode in order to show unicode characters

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If you re trying to print   Unicode  and getting ascii codec errors  check out this page  the TLDR of which is do export PYTHONIOENCODING UTF-8 before firing up python  this variable controls what sequence of bytes the console tries to encode your string data as    Internally  Python3 uses UTF-8 by default  see the Unicode HOWTO  so that s not the problem  you can just put Unicode in strings  as seen in the other answers and comments   It s when you try and get this data out to your console that the problem happens   Python thinks your console can only handle ascii   Some of the other answers say   Write it to a file  first  but note they specify the encoding  UTF-8  for doing so  so  Python doesn t change anything in writing   and then use a method for reading the file that just spits out the bytes without any regard for encoding  which is why that works

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Print a unicode character in Python   Print a unicode character directly from python interpreter   el apollo    python Python 2 7 3  gt  gt  gt  print u  u2713      Unicode character u  u2713  is a checkmark   The interpreter prints the checkmark on the screen   Print a unicode character from a python script   Put this in test py      usr bin python print  here is your checkmark      u  u2713      Run it like this   el apollo    python test py here is your checkmark      If it doesn t show a checkmark for you  then the problem could be elsewhere  like the terminal settings or something you are doing with stream redirection   Store unicode characters in a file   Save this to file  foo py      usr bin python -tt   - - coding  utf-8 - - import codecs import sys  UTF8Writer   codecs getwriter  utf8   sys stdout   UTF8Writer sys stdout  print u e with obfuscation         Run it and pipe output to file   python foo py  gt  tmp txt   Open tmp txt and look inside  you see this   el apollo    cat tmp txt  e with obfuscation       Thus you have saved unicode e with a obfuscation mark on it to a file

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Replace     with  000   For example   U 1F600  will become  U0001F600  and prepend the Unicode code with  quot   quot  and print  Example   gt  gt  gt  print  quot Learning    quot    quot  U0001F40D quot   Learning      gt  gt  gt    Check this maybe it will help python unicode emoji

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Just one more thing that hasn t been added yet  In Python 2  if you want to print a variable that has unicode and use  format    then do this  make the base string that is being formatted a unicode string with u      gt  gt  gt  text    Universit   de Montr  al   gt  gt  gt  print u This is unicode      format text    gt  gt  gt  This is unicode  Universit   de Montr  al

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This fixes UTF-8 printing in python   UTF8Writer   codecs getwriter  utf8   sys stdout   UTF8Writer sys stdout

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Considering that this is the first stack overflow result when google searching this topic  it bears mentioning that prefixing u to unicode strings is optional in Python 3   Python 2 example was copied from the top answer   Python 3  both work    print   u0420 u043e u0441 u0441 u0438 u044f   print u  u0420 u043e u0441 u0441 u0438 u044f     Python 2   print u  u0420 u043e u0441 u0441 u0438 u044f

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