Encoding issue for the console output

[ted_chou12]

import sys
reload(sys)
sys.setdefaultencoding('utf8')

import pyodbc

driver = '{ODBC Driver 13 for SQL Server}'
cnxn = pyodbc.connect('DRIVER='+driver+';SERVER='+server+';DATABASE='+database+';UID='+username+';PWD='+ password+';CHARSET=SJIS')
#cnxn.setencoding(unicode, encoding='utf-8')
cursor = cnxn.cursor()
cursor.execute("select ...  where q_contract_summary.identifier='" + identifier + "'")
row = cursor.fetchone()
while row:
    sys.stdout.write(str(row[0]).decode('unicode_escape'))
    #print(str(row[0]).decode('utf-8') + " " + unicode(str(row[1]), "utf-8"))
    row = cursor.fetchone()

I see in my console is:

a?¢a??a?≪a??a??c?°a¢?tedchou-MacBook-Air:~ ted.chou$ python test.py
a?¢a??a?≪a??a??c?°a¢?tedchou-MacBook-Air:~ ted.chou$ python test.py
a?¢a??a?≪a??a??c?°a¢?tedchou-MacBook-Air:~ ted.chou$

I believe that this is the encoding problem, could anyone guide me in the right direction?

Thank you so much!

[wavic]

This is not related to Python but to the tty application. It can't decode properly the folder name. As you see. Change the directory to /home/$USER/ or open another terminal window and should be alright.

[ted_chou12]

Thank you so much! But I am using Mac OS default terminal... I believe that it is able to display UTF-8 properly:

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tedchou-MacBook-Air:Downloads ted.chou$ vim test.abcdefg
tedchou-MacBook-Air:Downloads ted.chou$ python test.py
python: can't open file 'test.py': [Errno 2] No such file or directory
tedchou-MacBook-Air:Downloads ted.chou$ cd ~
tedchou-MacBook-Air:~ ted.chou$ python test.py
a?¢a??a?≪a??a??c?°a¢?tedchou-MacBook-Air:~ ted.chou$ python test.py
a?\xa2a??a?\u226aa??a??c?\xb0a\xa2?tedchou-MacBook-Air:~ ted.chou$ python test.py
a?\xa2a??a?\u226aa??a??c?\xb0a\xa2?tedchou-MacBook-Air:~ ted.chou$

I think it should be alright...
Thanks again.

[wavic]

Can't say anything else. Never used Mac. I am on Linux machine.

[ted_chou12]

Thanks, I found out that python3 does not have this unicode issue... changed to python3