Example: Simple Unicode with Python 3

To write Unicode text in UTF-8 to a xlsxwriter file in Python 3 you just need to encode the file as UTF-8.

###############################################################################
#
# A simple Unicode spreadsheet in Python 3 using the XlsxWriter Python module.
#
# SPDX-License-Identifier: BSD-2-Clause
# Copyright 2013-2024, John McNamara, jmcnamara@cpan.org
#

# To write Unicode text in UTF-8 to a xlsxwriter file in Python 3 you just
# need to encode the file as UTF-8.
import xlsxwriter

workbook = xlsxwriter.Workbook("unicode_python3.xlsx")
worksheet = workbook.add_worksheet()

worksheet.write("B3", "Это фраза на русском!")

workbook.close()