I have searched and found some related problems but the way they deal with Unicode is different, so I can't apply the solutions to my problem.
I won't paste my whole code but I'm sure this isolated example code replicates the error: (I'm also using wx for GUI so this is like inside a class)
#coding: utf-8
...
something = u'ЧЕТЫРЕ'
//show the Russian text in a Label on the GUI
self.ExampleLabel.SetValue(str(self.something))
On Eclipse everything works perfectly and it displays the Russian characters. However when I try to open up Python straight through the file I get this error on the CL:
UnicodeEncodeError: 'ascii' codec can't encode characters in position 0-11:
ordinal not in range(128)
I figured this has something to do with the CL not being able to ouput the Unicode chars and Eclipse doing behind-the-scene magic. Any help on how to make it so that it works on its own?