Cyrillic characters in Python 2.7 -

the function returns places in radius using google places api. exact, use this library handle task.

the problem cyrillic symbols shown this:

ÐО Сбербанк РоÑÑии, КиевÑкое отделение â„–14

i tried these suggestions. tried this:

pname = place.name uni = unicode(place.name) 

and this:

convertedname = pname.encode(encoding='utf-8', errors='strict') 

nothing helped. else can try?

list(bytearray("надра"))

[208, 189, 208, 176, 208, 180, 209, 128, 208, 176]

that's utf-8. if output terminal set utf-8, should need no encoding or decoding @ all. proper way read string use string.decode('utf-8') turn proper unicode string, encode before output whatever encoding terminal supports (looks vaguely ... code page 1250 or iso-8859-2?).

^{https://rawgit.com/tripleee/8bit/master/encodings.html#0xd0 shows 208 (0xd0) being mapped Đ in 6 different encodings, conjecture using 1 of those. rest speculation on part.}

so, basically,

pname=place.name.decode('utf-8') 

apparently, need encode suitable output encoding console, or set console support utf-8. if indeed terminal presently set cp1250, not support cyrillic output @ all.