How to redirect utf-8 output into txt file

Question

I ran a python script to write my log files using:

nohup python my_script.py >> log.txt

However, I thought maybe it is >> in Linux which doesn't support the Chinese characters encoded in utf-8.

In my script I used print to show the utf-8 characters and it works well in the python shell. So I want to know how can I write the utf-8 characters to log files correctly? Thanks.

Answer 1

I've found the solution. Just add one line in head of the python script:

# -*- coding: UTF-8 -*-

For example, a simple script named utf8.py:

# -*- coding: UTF-8 -*-

if __name__ == '__main__':
    s = u'中文'
    print s.encode('utf-8')

Then redirect the print to a txt file:

[zfz@server tmp]$ python utf8.py >> utf8.txt
[zfz@server tmp]$ cat utf8.txt 
中文

The Chinese characters can be output to the txt file correctly.