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I am using Ubuntu 12.04 LTS. When I try something like this in terminal:
rfx@digest:/usr/share/fonts/truetype/ttf-dejavu$ echo вдлжофыдвж
вдлжофыдвж
Symbols are shown correctly. But if try to print unicode symbols using python 2.7 I get this:
>>> print u'абв'
ц│ц┌ц≈
As python shows I have utf-8 encoding by default for terminal:
>>> sys.stdout.encoding
'UTF-8'
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To print any character in the Python interpreter, use a \u to denote a unicode character and then follow with the character code. For instance, the code for β is 03B2, so to print β the command is print('\u03B2') .
Only a limited number of Unicode characters are mapped to strings. Thus, any character that is not-represented / mapped will cause the encoding to fail and raise UnicodeEncodeError. To avoid this error use the encode( utf-8 ) and decode( utf-8 ) functions accordingly in your code.
Python's string type uses the Unicode Standard for representing characters, which lets Python programs work with all these different possible characters.
If encoding and/or errors are given, unicode() will decode the object which can either be an 8-bit string or a character buffer using the codec for encoding. The encoding parameter is a string giving the name of an encoding; if the encoding is not known, LookupError is raised.
Your input is being improperly deciphered by the terminal. This is not a Python problem.
To prove it, use the unicode representation:
myunicode = u'\u0430\u0431\u0432'
print myunicode
print myunicode.encode('utf-8')
If this does not print the original string абв twice, then you need to configure your terminal emulator program correctly.
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