The Python Game Book

since python3, you can use unicode inside strings and even as variable names.

see https://docs.python.org/3/howto/unicode.html

• pygame: use the pygame.font.Font or the newer pygame.freetype.Font to load the fond. The fond must contain the unicode glyphs. For example, use DejaVuSans
• look up (at pdf or wikipedia) the unicode for the glyph you want to draw.
  • if the unicode has only 4 chars, like 12BB, use “\u12BB”
  • if the unicode has more than 4 chars, like 1F345, fill with leading zeros so that the lenght is 8, and use an uppercase U: “\U0001F345”