I think you need to use a raw unicode string, ur
>>> unicodedata.name(ur'\u2122')
'TRADE MARK SIGN'
> Date: Fri, 4 Dec 2015 13:07:38 -0500
> From: da...@vybenetworks.com
> To: python-list@python.org
> Subject: Unicode failure
>
> I thought that going to Python 3.4 would solve my Unicode issues but it
> seems I still don't understand this stuff. Here is my script.
>
> #! /usr/bin/python3
> # -*- coding: UTF-8 -*-
> import sys
> print(sys.getdefaultencoding())
> print(u"\N{TRADE MARK SIGN}")
>
> And here is my output.
>
> utf-8
> Traceback (most recent call last):
> File "./g", line 5, in <module>
> print(u"\N{TRADE MARK SIGN}")
> UnicodeEncodeError: 'ascii' codec can't encode character '\u2122' in
> position 0: ordinal not in range(128)
>
> What am I missing?
>
> TIA.
>
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