Cannot print unicode string

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I'm working with dbf database and Armenian letters, the DBF encoding was unknown so I've created a letter map to decode revived string. Now I have a valid Unicode string, but I cannot print it out because of this error:

UnicodeEncodeError: 'charmap' codec can't encode characters in position 0-5: character maps to

What I have tried so far:

print u'%s' %str ## Returns mentioned error
print repr(str) ## Returns string in this form u'\u054c\u0561\u0586\u0561\u0575\u0565\u056c

How to fix it?

unrelated: `str` is a builtin name, don't replace it. `u'%s' % s` is unnecessary if `s` is a Unicode string. — jfs, Aug 24 '15 at 00:55

score 1 · Accepted Answer · answered Aug 22 '15 at 13:50

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try to do the following:

newStr = str.encode("utf-8")
print newStr

P.S. Had this problem with another language, was able to view letters when wrote them into a file.

answered Aug 22 '15 at 13:50

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It looks like this answer should produce mojibake. The error mentions `charmap` (probably something like cp437), not utf-8. Do not hardcode the character encoding of your environment inside the script. – jfs Aug 24 '15 at 01:00

score 1 · Answer 2 · answered Sep 25 '19 at 11:15

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In my case, I have changed encoding settings in my IDE. I use PyCharm.

Go to: "File -> Settings... -> Editor -> File Encodings" and change everything to needed charset. I hope it will help to someone.

answered Sep 25 '19 at 11:15

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score -1 · Answer 3 · edited May 23 '17 at 11:53

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To print a valid Unicode string, use print(unicode_string).

The error suggests that you are on Windows. To print Unicode on Windows, see this answer -- it is for Python 3.4 but it should work for Python 2.7 with minor modifications.

edited May 23 '17 at 11:53

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answered Aug 24 '15 at 00:59

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