Display Emoji in Python's console

Question

I wonder if it's possible to print Emojis in a Python 3 console on Windows. Actually, to avoid the following error:

codec can't encode character '\U0001f44d' in position 10: character maps to  
<undefined>

I've used:

import emoji as moji
print(moji.emojize('Python is :thumbsup:', use_aliases=True).encode('unicode-
escape'))

which is, as expected, printing the right character:U0001f44d without any exception.

*Which* operating system, which *Python* console, do you mean *Windows* console window or something? — Antti Haapala -- Слава Україні, Nov 06 '16 at 06:54
Because otherwise the answer is **yes**, `>>> print('\U0001f44d')` -> `` if you happen to run this on Linux and Python 3.5.2 and Konsole and so on. — Antti Haapala -- Слава Україні, Nov 06 '16 at 06:56
@AnttiHaapala: yes, i use `Windows` as `OS`. is this the main reason? if `yes`, why `Windows` appears to an hindrance here? — dark.vador, Nov 06 '16 at 07:53

Mark Tolonen · Accepted Answer · 2020-02-10T14:17:19.937

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The Windows command prompt has a lot of limitations with regards to Unicode characters, especially those outside the basic multilingual plane(BMP, or U+0000 to U+FFFF). The command prompt defaults to a legacy OEM encoding (cp437 on US Windows) and has limited font support for characters outside the localized encoding. Find a Python IDE that has good support for UTF-8.

One quick-and-dirty way to see a wide variety of Unicode characters is to write to a file and leverage the browser:

import os
with open('test.htm','w',encoding='utf-8-sig') as f:
    f.write('\U0001f44d')
os.startfile('test.htm')

This displays in the latest Chrome browser on my Windows 10 system.

edited Feb 10 '20 at 14:17

answered Nov 06 '16 at 08:08

Mark Tolonen

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Thanks for your explanations. – dark.vador Nov 06 '16 at 08:28
good idea to use utf-8-sig. Had to google for a quite a while to find some info on that – Anas Elghafari Jun 21 '17 at 23:57
Yes, if a file has a UTF-8-encoded BOM (byte order mark) most browsers will use UTF-8 to decode the file for display. That's what `utf-8-sig` ensures is written to the file. – Mark Tolonen Jun 26 '19 at 16:51

score 6 · Answer 2 · answered Aug 24 '18 at 20:59

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First install emoji module --- pip install emoji

import emoji
print(emoji.emojize('Python is :thumbs_up:'))

This code is working in Anaconda Jupyter environment...

answered Aug 24 '18 at 20:59

Lubna Khan

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