Fix PyCharm Garbled Characters: Encoding Guide

If you encounter garbled characters in PyCharm, you can try the following solutions:

1. Ensure that the encoding of the Python script matches that of the source code file. You can find the file encoding at the bottom of the PyCharm status bar, such as UTF-8, and it can be set by going to “File” -> “Settings” -> “Editor” -> “Code Style” -> “File Encoding”.
2. Specify the file encoding at the beginning of the code using comments, as shown below:

# -*- coding: utf-8 -*-

1. You can adjust the encoding setting for the console in PyCharm to UTF-8. Simply navigate to “File” -> “Settings” -> “Editor” -> “File Encodings” -> “Console encoding” to make the change.
2. Ensure that the default encoding of the system matches that of PyCharm. This can be done by modifying the system’s environment variables.
3. If garbled characters appear when using the print function to output Chinese characters, you can try using Unicode encoding to output them, as shown below:

print(u"汉字")

1. If you are still encountering issues with garbled Chinese characters, you can try using Python’s chardet library to automatically detect the file’s encoding and convert it to the correct encoding. You can install the chardet library with the following command:

pip install chardet

Next, in the code, use the chardet library to detect and convert encoding.

import chardet

# 检测文件编码方式
with open("filename.txt", "rb") as f:
    byte_data = f.read()
    result = chardet.detect(byte_data)
    file_encoding = result["encoding"]

# 转换编码方式
with open("filename.txt", "r", encoding=file_encoding) as f:
    data = f.read()
    print(data)

By using the above methods, the issue of garbled Chinese characters in PyCharm should be resolved.