removing accent in letter in python, works in idle shell but not when in file in Visual Studio?

Question

When i run unidecode.unidecode("32 rue d'Athènes Paris France") in the python idle shell it works, but when i run a script using exec(open(scriptnam).read()) in the idle shell with the following code it doesn't?

import unidecode

print(unidecode.unidecode("32 rue d'Athènes Paris France"))

i get:

32 rue d'AthA"nes Paris France

Answer 1

Special character support depends not only on Python, but also on the console you use.

On Windows, you can configure this behaviour using the chcp command.

On linux, it depends. This is a good question to look at: https://unix.stackexchange.com/questions/303712/how-can-i-enable-utf-8-support-in-the-linux-console