Why doesn't this escape sequence work?

Question

I'm playing with \N{name} (character named name in the Unicode database) but it doesn't work.

Typing this code:

print "\N{GREEK CAPITAL LETTER DELTA}"

or this variant:

print u"\N{GREEK CAPITAL LETTER DELTA}"

I get the result:

\N{GREEK CAPITAL LETTER DELTA}

in both cases.

What is the problem? Why didn't I get a character from the Unicode database?

Why do you have `\N` at the start of your question and `/N` in the rest of your examples? — Padraic Cunningham, May 30 '16 at 21:36
But `print u"\N{GREEK CAPITAL LETTER DELTA}"` would work? Did you actually use \N or /N? — Padraic Cunningham, May 30 '16 at 21:41
I get an error - UnicodeEncodeError: 'charmap' codec can't encode character u'\xd8' in position 0: character maps to — Nikita Shub, May 30 '16 at 21:45
http://stackoverflow.com/questions/14284269/why-doesnt-python-recognize-my-utf-8-encoded-source-file/14284404#14284404 it is down to your terminal encoding — Padraic Cunningham, May 30 '16 at 21:48

score 2 · Accepted Answer · edited May 23 '17 at 10:29

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\N is the proper escape sequence. You have to use a backslash \.

edited May 23 '17 at 10:29

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answered May 30 '16 at 21:28

Raphaël Gomès

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