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Finn Årup Nielsen
Finn Årup Nielsen

Reputation: 6726

Change Windows 8 codepage in Python 3 Spyder console from cp1252 to utf-8

How does one change Windows 8 codepage in Python 3 Spyder console from cp1252 to utf-8?

The code page apparently is cp1252 as evidenced with 

import locale
locale.getpreferredencoding()

This means that it is difficult to print non-ascii characters with 'print' as an exception is raised (UnicodeEncodeError).

One possible solution is with the .encode method and its 'errors' argument.

u'\x9d'.encode('cp1252', errors='replace')

But why isn't there an (or where is the) option to change the console encoding to utf-8. I was expecting an option in the 'Preferences'.

Another solution is to execute the python file outside Spyder with like:

chcp 65001
c:\path_to_python\python.exe the_script.py

This works but lacks the integratedness of Spyder.

I tried to make a batch file with

chcp 65001
c:\path_to_python\python.exe

And set that to "use the following Python interpreter" in "Advanced settings", but Spyder would not allow it - at least the way I tried it.

I neither could make another workaround working by making a batch script with:

chcp 65001
c\:path_to_spyder\Spyder.exe

Upvotes: 0

Views: 1001

Answers (1)

Carlos Cordoba
Carlos Cordoba

Reputation: 34156

(Spyder dev here) This will be fixed in our next release (i.e. version 2.3.2). Both input and output in the console will be treated as unicode from that release onwards, for Python 3 and Python 2 as well.

Upvotes: 1

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