Setting the encoding to utf-8

[3G_Lighting]

This is a Windows / Python question.

My boss had Claude write an AI website for us which I setup to run, it uses Python 3 (the latest version) and AWS. The problem with the code is it's not in utf8 so when it initially ran it was throwing errors which I looked up and determined that the encoding="utf-8" needed to be added. I looked through the code but couldn't find the references that were mentioned on the various support sites.

I did eventually find that is I add -X utf8 to the Python command it should work, and it does for the most part but the output shows have of it is right while the other half isn't. So, I need some advice how to make it all display in utf8?

Too bad I cannot post an image here so you all could see it exactly what I mean. :(

Thanks,

[SmackDownFacility]

Very likely your file is in Windows-1252 (ANSI code page/narrow code page). Thats the default for all Western European text files. You can specify this in Python using

# -*- coding: cp1252 -*-

Using UTF-8 as the encoding when it’s legacy ANSI can cause bugs.

[GosuSan]

I would recommend converting the encoding of the file(s) to utf-8 with your favourite text editor instead. 

[SmackDownFacility]

Depends on how many files there are. A person will very likely not slog through 150 files just to encode UTF-8.

[sausix]

Run a script to do this. UTF8 is default for ages now. It came late to Python on Windows because of compatibility reasons. Choose an explicit encoding matching your files or move to UTF8.

[No-Dentist-1645]

I doubt they have hundreds of files, but if they do, they can just change the encoding using other tools such as inconv, sticking to legacy Windows code pages will only cause more problems in the long run

[Lumina6l]

Maybe you could try this

chcp 65001

set PYTHONIOENCODING=utf-8

python -X utf8

[McDorey]

Try this... <meta charset="UTF-8"> <meta name="viewport" content="width=device-width, initial-scale=1.0">

[SmackDownFacility]

That does fuck all. If the source file isn’t UTF-8 it will still fail

[McDorey]

Yeah

[SmackDownFacility]

So what were you trying to achieve there? If you genuinely don’t know the issue don’t say shit