Printing accented characters in Python 2.7

Question

I'm new to python. I'm trying to print accented characters, like this:

    # -*- coding: utf-8 -*-
    print 'éàÇÃãéèï'

But when I execute this code, I get:

    >> ├®├á├ç├â├ú├®├¿├»

I'm using 64-bit Windows 7 & Python 2.7.5, I have the code in file.py and execute it with

python file.py

Answer 1

As Wooble mentioned, if you change

print 'éàÇÃãéèï'

to

print u'éàÇÃãéèï'

It should work.

Here is a good intro to unicode in python (both for 2.x and 3): The updated guide to unicode

Answer 2

import sys
sys.stdout.reconfigure(encoding='utf-8')

print('Now it works éàÇÃãéèï')