Print UTF-8 characters in cmd using python

Question

# -*- coding: utf-8 -*-
print "ÆØÅ"

When running the above script in Windows 7 with python 2.7.3 using cmd, powershell or cygwin, I get this output:

ÆØÅ

The file is a UTF-8 file and works fine in my text editor. How can I make it print "ÆØÅ"?

Answer 1

Bit late to the party here, try

# -*- coding: utf-8 -*-
from __future__ import unicode_literals
print "ÆØÅ"

Answer 2

You can force unicode when printing:

print u'ÆØÅ'