Issues printing unicode characters

[kivaar]

Hi there,

I'm facing an issue where my PyInstaller program doesn't print special characters and will stop printing other strings following this. The source code doesn't have this problem.

At a high level, this issue arises when printing a basic string concatenated with another string containing a special character. The example code below will only print "apple" and then further print statements will not make it to stdout.

print("apple\n" + "México")

I'm on Win10 with Python 3.8.5 and PyInstaller 4.0

Any ideas? Thanks in advance!

[bwoodsend]

I’m not getting this issue when I test your little print snippet. Do you have an encoding shebang at the top of your script (such as # -*- coding: utf-8 -*-)?

Also, Windows’s cmd prompt isn’t utf-8 by default. When you say The source code doesn’t have this problem, did you verify that it works normally from cmd (i.e. python my_code.py) or just your Python IDE?

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[kivaar]

No encoding statement in the script. It works normally from Git Bash. I'm using Gooey as a GUI and then packaging the whole thing with PyInstaller: https://github.com/chriskiehl/Gooey#packaging

After answering your question I may have found the solution (https://github.com/chriskiehl/Gooey/issues/520). Will give this a go. Thanks for your help!