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Display Emoji in Python's console

I wonder if it's possible to print Emojis in a Python 3 console on Windows. Actually, to avoid the following error:

codec can't encode character '\U0001f44d' in position 10: character maps to  
<undefined>

I've used:

import emoji as moji
print(moji.emojize('Python is :thumbsup:', use_aliases=True).encode('unicode-
escape'))

which is, as expected, printing the right character:U0001f44d without any exception.

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dark.vador Avatar asked Nov 06 '16 06:11

dark.vador


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2 Answers

First install emoji module --- pip install emoji

import emoji
print(emoji.emojize('Python is :thumbs_up:'))

This code is working in Anaconda Jupyter environment...

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Lubna Khan Avatar answered Oct 02 '22 05:10

Lubna Khan


The Windows command prompt has a lot of limitations with regards to Unicode characters, especially those outside the basic multilingual plane(BMP, or U+0000 to U+FFFF). The command prompt defaults to a legacy OEM encoding (cp437 on US Windows) and has limited font support for characters outside the localized encoding. Find a Python IDE that has good support for UTF-8.

One quick-and-dirty way to see a wide variety of Unicode characters is to write to a file and leverage the browser:

import os
with open('test.htm','w',encoding='utf-8-sig') as f:
    f.write('\U0001f44d')
os.startfile('test.htm')

This displays thumbs up in the latest Chrome browser on my Windows 10 system.

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Mark Tolonen Avatar answered Oct 02 '22 04:10

Mark Tolonen