Answers for "how make python understand utf-8"

python utf8

# insert in the first line of the file

#!/usr/bin/python3
# -*- coding: utf-8 -*-

# or

#!/usr/bin/env python
# -*- coding: utf-8 -*-

python print utf-8

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TestText = "Test - āĀēĒčČ..šŠūŪžŽ" # this not UTF-8...it is a Unicode string in Python 3.X.
TestText2 = TestText.encode('utf8') # this is a UTF-8-encoded byte string.