Get rid of unicode characters in VSCode Interactive Python Environment

Question

I'm using VSCode Version: 1.46.1 on Mac OS Catalina. I'm using the built-in Python interactive terminal Python 3.7.4 Whenever I print strings, it shows up with unicode, making it difficult to read, like so:

\\u201cI like what we have.\\u201d It is quiet and there is somebody else in the room. I tell my dog that I need to go and he says, \\u201cjust alright.\\u201d ~~I am hungry.\\n\\n

I have tried every flavor of un-escaping escaped characters. See here:

Unescaping escaped characters in a string using Python 3.2

And

Using unicode character u201c

But to no avail. I think the problem lies in the encoding options built into VSCode itself, but I'm not sure how to modify that.

Answer 1

Maybe this page could provide some information for you.

"\“" and "\”" means “ and ”, but they will not work, they should be "\“" and "\”".