Visual Studio utf-8 error

Question

I tried to use Visual Studio along with the tools to Python, but when I put: print("Hello World") and grip F5 it runs smoothly.

But when I put: print("olá") he gives the following error:

File "C:\Users\.... path .....\PythonApplication1\PythonApplication1.py", line 1
SyntaxError: (unicode error) 'utf-8' codec can't decode byte 0xe1 in position 0:
 unexpected end of data
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I’d like to know how to solve!

Answer 1

Try this:

#coding: UTF-8
print('olá')

Depending on the Python version, the encoding used should be specified if you want to use special characters. If it doesn’t work, try this too:

#coding: latin-1
print('olá')