Python, how to print Japanese, Korean, Chinese strings

Question

In Python, for Japanese, Chinese, and Korean,Python can not print the correct strings, for example hello in Japanese, Korean and Chinese are:

こん         


        

Answer 1

First you need to read the text as unicode

import codecs
f = codecs.open('test.txt','r','utf-8')

Second

When you print you should encode it like this

unicodeText.encode('utf-8')

Third

you should insure that your console support unicode display

Use

print sys.getdefaultencoding()

if it doesn't try

reload(sys)
sys.setdefaultencoding('utf-8')