Definine Spyder coding utf-8

Question

Due to a problem I had, all stange symbols such as à, ç... have changed to à or ç (all these no-ascii characters). This is happening every time I save a file in Spyder and I would want to know where can I cahange the encoding to utf-8 (the encoding when saving a file).

Thanks.

Answer 1

You can set the default encoding to utf by code:

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

This is not recommended by many users, so try changing PYTHONIOENCODING="UTF-8" in your environment first.