You can create a tuple of unicode strings in python using the u'' syntax when defining this tuple.
example
a = [(u'亀',), (u'犬',)] print(a)
Output
This will give the output
[('亀',), ('犬',)]Note that you have to provide the u if you want to say that this is a unicode string. Else it will be treated as a normal binary string. And you'll get an unexpected output.
example
a = [('亀',), ('犬',)]
print(a)Output
This will give the output
[('\xe4\xba\x80',), ('\xe7\x8a\xac',)]