printing unicode characters from a tuple in python

Question

I do not understand this issue where my printing does not work

b = (u'\u0648\u0627\u0646\u0627', 'NN')
print b[0] 

Output

**Nothing is printed**

However this works

b = ("haha", "hehe")
print b[0] 

Output

haha

• Avinash Raj: b = (u'\u068\u0627\u0646\u0627', 'NN') assignment shows syntax error for me.
• Tim Pietzcker: ...because \u068 is not a valid Unicode escape sequence.
• aceminer: I have made an error while copying and have modified it
• John Zwinck: What do you want it to print? If I fix the Unicode error in your example code, it does print something. Not "haha" but some characters I don't recognize: وانا - which Google Translate from Arabic says might mean "And I".
• John Zwinck: Make sure to look at the right side of your terminal. It prints right-to-left. And make sure your terminal or emulator is configured for UTF-8 display.

Answer 1

The answer seems to be that it's Arabic script, which prints right-to-left, so you may have missed it on the right-hand side of your screen.

Also you may need to set your terminal or emulator to UTF-8.

Answer 2

Hey just check you have provided a wrong hexadecimal unicode

b = (u'\u068\u0627\u0646\u0627', 'NN')
 ^

3 digit hex try using

 b = (u'\u0683\u0627\u0646\u0627', 'NN')
 b[0]

prints right value as expected.

• Antti Haapala: Obsolete answer generated from comment.