Python Encoding : Chinese and Japanese Characters

If you are using Mac, add the following code block to the beginning of the file (the first line of the file).

#!/usr/bin/python
# -*- coding: utf-8 -*-

It will force the interpreter to use UTF-8 encoding method.

If you are using Windows, it does not work.

There are just two examples in Windows,

datetime.datetime.now().strftime('%Y{0}%m{1}%d{2}').format(*'年月日')

strftime() is implemented in C library, and Windows does not support UTF-8 in this case. So you can replace the character later by .format() . see https://stackoverflow.com/questions/16034060/python3-datetime-datetime-strftime-failed-to-accept-utf-8-string-format

open('text1.txt', "w" , encoding='utf8')