python 2.6 - print French characters

Question

My question regarding printing French characters with python 2.6. There is no problems when I use python 3.4 but I need using python 2.6! Instead of société mère I've got société mère etc. I already tried:

#!/usr/bin/python
# coding=utf-8
#!/usr/bin/env python
# -*- coding: utf-8 -*-
# -*- coding: iso-8859-1 -*-

without success. I create a .csv file and need to fill headings with French titles. Also, some French characters will be input from .xml file.

Thanks in advance

Answer 1

Try prefixing your string literals with u:

print u'société mère'

Docs: https://docs.python.org/2/howto/unicode.html