title: Printing accented characters in Python 2.7
body: <p>I'm new to python. I'm trying to print accented characters, like this:</p>
  
  <pre><code>    # -*- coding: utf-8 -*-
      print 'éàÇÃãéèï'
  </code></pre>
  
  <p>But when I execute this code, I get:</p>
  
  <pre><code>    &gt;&gt; ├®├á├ç├â├ú├®├¿├»
  </code></pre>
  
  <p>I'm using 64-bit Windows 7 &amp; Python 2.7.5, I have the code in <code>file.py</code> and execute it with</p>
  
  <pre><code>python file.py
  </code></pre>