My code
print('ö')
gives me this error
Traceback (most recent call last):
File "C:\Users\elect\AppData\Local\Programs\Python\Python310\lib\runpy.py", line 196, in _run_module_as_main
return _run_code(code, main_globals, None,
File "C:\Users\elect\AppData\Local\Programs\Python\Python310\lib\runpy.py", line 86, in _run_code
exec(code, run_globals)
File "c:\program files\microsoft visual studio\2022\community\common7\ide\extensions\microsoft\python\core\debugpy\__main__.py", line 45, in <module>
cli.main()
File "c:\program files\microsoft visual studio\2022\community\common7\ide\extensions\microsoft\python\core\debugpy/..\debugpy\server\cli.py", line 444, in main
run()
File "c:\program files\microsoft visual studio\2022\community\common7\ide\extensions\microsoft\python\core\debugpy/..\debugpy\server\cli.py", line 285, in run_file
runpy.run_path(target_as_str, run_name=compat.force_str("__main__"))
File "C:\Users\elect\AppData\Local\Programs\Python\Python310\lib\runpy.py", line 288, in run_path
code, fname = _get_code_from_file(run_name, path_name)
File "C:\Users\elect\AppData\Local\Programs\Python\Python310\lib\runpy.py", line 257, in _get_code_from_file
code = compile(f.read(), fname, 'exec')
File "C:\Users\elect\source\repos\TFT\TFT\TFT.py", line 1
print('�')
^
SyntaxError: (unicode error) 'utf-8' codec can't decode byte 0xf6 in position 0: invalid start byte
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I have tried various variations of the encoding and decoding methods that I have seen on other questions regarding special characters in python, but none of them worked.