Python, Unicode, and the Windows console

Question

When I try to print a Unicode string in a Windows console, I get a UnicodeEncodeError: \'charmap\' codec can\'t encode character .... error. I assume this is b

Answer 1

Despite the other plausible-sounding answers that suggest changing the code page to 65001, that does not work. (Also, changing the default encoding using sys.setdefaultencoding is not a good idea.)

See this question for details and code that does work.