How to print a unicode string?

[Ben Finney]

damonwischik at gmail.com writes:

> From what I've googled, I think I need to set my locale. I don't
> understand how.
> 
> import locale
> print locale.getlocale()
> --> (None,None)
> print locale.getdefaultlocal()
> --> ('en_GB','cp1252')
> print locale.normalize('en_GB.utf-8')
> --> en_GB.UTF8
> locale.setlocale(locale.LC_ALL,'en_GB.UTF8')
> -->  locale.Error: unsupported locale setting
> 
> I'd be grateful for advice.

Just because the locale library knows the normalised name for it
doesn't mean it's available on your OS. Have you confirmed that your
OS (independent of Python) supports the locale you're trying to set?

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