title: Using unicode character u201c
body: <p>I'm a new to python and am having problems understand unicode. I'm using 
  Python 3.4. 
  I've spent an entire day trying to figure this out by reading about unicode including <a href="http://www.fileformat.info/info/unicode/char/201C/index.htm" rel="nofollow">http://www.fileformat.info/info/unicode/char/201C/index.htm</a> and
  <a href="http://python-notes.curiousefficiency.org/en/latest/python3/text_file_processing.html" rel="nofollow">http://python-notes.curiousefficiency.org/en/latest/python3/text_file_processing.html</a></p>
  
  <p>I need to refer to special quotes because they are used in the text I'm analyzing. I did test that the W7 command window can read and write the 2 special quote characters. 
  To make things simple, I wrote a one line script:</p>
  
  <pre><code>print ('“') # that's the special quote mark in between normal single quotes
  </code></pre>
  
  <p>and get this output:</p>
  
  <pre><code>Traceback (most recent call last):
    File "C:\Users\David\Documents\Python34\Scripts\wordCount3.py", line 1, in &lt;module&gt;
      print ('\u201c')
    File "C:\Python34\lib\encodings\cp437.py", line 19, in encode
      return codecs.charmap_encode(input,self.errors,encoding_map)[0]
  UnicodeEncodeError: 'charmap' codec can't encode character '\u201c' in position 0: character maps to &lt;undefined&gt;
  </code></pre>
  
  <p>So how do I write something to refer to these two characters <code>u201C</code> and <code>u201D</code>?</p>
  
  <p>Is this the correct encoding choice in the file open statement?</p>
  
  <pre><code>with open(fileIn, mode='r', encoding='utf-8', errors='replace') as f:
  </code></pre>