Printing Unicode in eclipse Pydev console and in Idle

Question

My configuration: Win7 + Python 2.6 + eclipse + PyDev

How do I enable Unicode print statements in:

1. PyDev console in eclipse
2. Idle Python GUI

Example print statement:

print(u"שלום עולם")

This comes out as:

ùìåí òåìí

Answer 1

For eclipse unicode console support:

1. Add -Dfile.encoding=UTF-8 to eclipse.ini which is in the eclipse install directory.
2. In eclipse - Run\\Run Configurations\\Python Run\\configuration\\Common\\ make sure UTF-8 is selected
3. In eclipse - Window\\Preferences\\General\\Workspace\\Text file encoding\\ making sure UTF-8 is selected
4. In [python install path]\\Lib\\site.py - change from encoding = "ascii" to encoding = "utf-8"
5. Make sure you're using unicode supporting fonts in eclipse - Window\\Preferences\\Appearance\\Colors and Fonts\\Debug\\Console font\\Edit

In the installation I did all of the above:

print(u"שלום עולם")         # Doesn't work
print("שלום עולם")          # Works

For django models:

print(my_model.my_field)                 # Doesn't work
print(my_model.my_field.encode('utf-8')) # Works

Answer 2

I was having the a same problem in Eclipse Luna 4.0.4 with Python 3.4.1 and PyDev 3.6.0. I tried the steps given above, and a few others, and was getting nowhere.

What worked for me was, in Eclipse, in Preferences —> PyDev —> Interpreters —> Python Interpreter , in the Environment tab, I added the environment variable PYTHONIOENCODING and specified its value as utf-8 .

That did the trick for me…

Answer 3

PYTHONIOENCODING is a pretty good generic way of fixing this problem. However, the Eclipse way of setting the locale of its console is as follows:

Set the Run Configuration encoding:

1. Edit Run Configuration
2. Click on "Common" tab
3. Set Encoding to "UTF-8"