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write chinese command line window using python

Im new in python
I'm trying to print some chineses word to command line windows 10 and file but got a problem:
Here is my code:
fh = open("hello.txt", "w")
str="欢迎大家加入自由职业者群体。谢谢大家"
print(str)
fh.write(str)
fh.close()

The default encoding of files is locale.getpreferredencoding(False), which seems to be cp1252 on your system. Specify the encoding when opening the file.
Also use with and the file will be closed for you when it exits the block:
#!python3.6
with open('hello.txt','w',encoding='utf8') as fh:
str="欢迎大家加入自由职业者群体。谢谢大家"
print(str)
fh.write(str)
To see the Chinese characters on the console you'll need to install a Chinese language pack, and change the console font to one that supports Chinese. Using an IDE that supports UTF-8 will also work. The "boxed question mark" characters are what is displayed when the font doesn't support the characters. If you cut-n-paste those characters to an application like Notepad that has support for Chinese fonts you should see the correct characters.
Here's my US Windows system with the Chinese Language Pack. The console is configured with the SimHei font.

Couple of issues:
There shouldn't be an identation after the fh variable declaration. You shouldn't name a string "str" because that's a builtin function. If you want to use characters outside the latin alphabet you need to declare that you're using UTF-8 like so: # -*- coding: utf-8 -*- (put that at the top of your file). Then it should work. Although terminal does sometimes have issues with foreign characters.
# -*- coding: utf-8 -*-
fh = open("hello.txt", "w")
str1="欢迎大家加入自由职业者群体。谢谢大家"
print(str1)
fh.write(str1)
fh.close()
Edit
Official solution is, use PyCharm!

For me, changing the font in command line worked.
System: Windows 10
Font that worked: NSimSun

"SyntaxError: Non-ASCII character" in running Python code

Im starting with python and when i use the interpreter and run this code:
>>>peliculas = ["movie1", "movie2", "movie3", "movie4"]
>>>print(peliculas[1])
when i use Pycharm IDE it doesnt compile:
peliculas = ["movie1", "movie2", "movie3", "movie4"]
print(peliculas[1])
This is the output:
File "/Users/user/PycharmProjects/untitled/Prueba2.py", line 1
SyntaxError: Non-ASCII character '\xc3' in file /Users/user/PycharmProjects/untitled/Prueba2.py on line 1, but no encoding declared; see http://www.python.org/peps/pep-0263.html for details
What´s wrong with python?.. do i installed it correctly?

Just add these two lines at to top of python code.
#!/usr/bin/env python
# -*- coding: utf-8 -*-

It's a file encoding problem. Try adding this at the beginning of the file:
#coding=utf-8

In PyCharm you can specify file encoding via the File | File encoding menu, or the file encoding item on the status bar. See this help article

Python, Emacs and Encoding

I have trouble with Emacs+Python 2.7.1+Encoding. According to PEP 0263, Python uses the same declaration of source encoding as emacs does.
There is no problem when I start my Python source code script with the following encoding tag:
#!/usr/bin/python
# -*- mode=python; encoding:us-ascii -*-
But when I add a line ending mode to my encoding such as in:
#!/usr/bin/python
# -*- mode=python; encoding:us-ascii-unix -*-
Emacs still acepts my encoding information, but I get the following error from Python when executing my script:
File "./unicode.py", line 2
SyntaxError: encoding problem: with BOM
Is there a way to tell Emacs about the line ending I want to use and at the same time tell Python about the source file encoding?

You can write two blocks: one that is parsed only by the interpreter, and one that is only parsed by Emacs:
#!/usr/bin/python
# coding: us-ascii
print "Hello World"
# Local Variables:
# mode: python
# coding: us-ascii-unix
# End:
Note that (1) us-ascii is the default in Python 2.x; and (2) Emacs is usually able to determine the line ending convention automatically; so you might be able to get along without declaring anything.

Hebrew characters in Python code on eclipse

I'm writing python code on eclipse and whenver I use hebrew characters I get the following syntax error:
SyntaxError: Non-ASCII character '\xfa' in file ... on line 66, but no encoding declared; see http://www.python.org/peps/pep-0263.html for details
How do I declare unicode/utf-8 encoding?
I tried adding
-*- coding: Unicode -*-
or
-*- coding: utf-8 -*-
in the commented section in the beginnning of the py file. It didn't work.
I'm running eclipse with pydev, python 2.6 on windows 7.

I tried it also and here is my conclusion:
You should add
# -*- coding: utf-8 -*-
at the very first line in your file.
And yes, I work with windows...
If I got it right, you are missing the #

Ensure that the encoding the editor is using to enter data matches the declared encoding in the file metadata.
This isn't something unique to Eclipse or Python; it applies to all character data formats and text editors.
Python has a number of options for dealing with string literals in both the str and unicode types via escape sequences. I believe there were changes to string literals between Python 2 and 3.
Python 2.7 string literals
Python 3.2 string literals

I had the same thing and it was because I'd tried to do:
a='言語版の記事'
When I should have done:
a=u'言語版の記事'
I think it's python/pydev complaining when trying to parse the source, rather than eclipse as such.

"Unicode" is certainly wrong, and \xfa is not UTF-8. Figure out which encoding is actually being used and declare that instead.

Making Swedish characters show properly in Windows Command Prompt using Python in Notepad++

The title explains it well. I have set up Notepad++ to open the Python script in the command prompt when I press F8 but all Swedish characters looks messed up when opening in CMD but perfectly fine in e.g IDLE.
This simple example code:
#!/usr/bin/env python
#-*- coding: UTF-8 -*-
print "åäö"
Looks like this.
As you can see the output of the batch file I use to open Python in cmd below shows the characters correctly but not the Python script above it. How do I fix this? I just want to show the characthers correctly I dont necessarily have too use UTF-8.
I open the file in cmd using this method.
Update: Solved. Added a "chcp 1252" line at the top of the batch file and then a cls line below it to remove the message about what character encoding it uses. Then I used "# -- coding: cp1252 --" in the python script and changed the font in cmd to Lucida Console. This is done by clicking the cmd icon at the top right of the cmd window and go into properties.

You're printing out UTF-8 bytes, but your console is not set to UTF-8. Either write Unicode as UTF-16, or set your console codepage to UTF-8.
print u"åäö"

I had the same issue and I used cp1252
C:>chcp 1252
This made the console to use 1252 encoding and then I ran my program which displayed the swedish characters with mercy.

Python will normally convert Unicode strings to the Windows console's encoding. Note that to use Unicode properly, you need Unicode strings (e.g., u'string') and need to declare the encoding the file is saved in with a coding: line.
For example, this (saved in UTF-8 as x.py on my system):
# coding: utf8
print u"åäö"
Produces this:
C:\>chcp
Active code page: 437
C:\>x
åäö
You'll only be able to successfully print characters that are supported by the active code page.

Set coding to: # -*- coding: ISO-8859-1 -*-
This worked for me and I tried a lot of different solutions to get it to work with Visual Studio IDE for Python.
# -*- coding: ISO-8859-1 -*-
print ("åäö")