How to print utf-8 to console with Python 3.4 (Windows 8)?

Question

I\'ve never fully wrapped my head around encoding and decoding unicode to other formats (utf-8, utf-16, ascii, etc.) but I\'ve reached a wall thatis both confusing and frust

Answer 1

Do not encode to utf-8; print Unicode directly instead:

print(u'♠')

See how to print Unicode to Windows console.