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Jonathan Livni
Jonathan Livni

Reputation: 107102

Printing Unicode in eclipse Pydev console and in Idle

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

Upvotes: 5

Views: 5441

Answers (3)

Alastair McCormack
Alastair McCormack

Reputation: 27714

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"

Upvotes: 0

RBV
RBV

Reputation: 1507

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…

Upvotes: 4

Jonathan Livni
Jonathan Livni

Reputation: 107102

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

Upvotes: 11

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