Happy examples:

#!/usr/bin/env python
# -*- coding: utf-8 -*-
czech = u'Leoš Janáček'.encode("utf-8")
print(czech)
pl = u'Zdzisław Beksiński'.encode("utf-8")
print(pl)
jp = u'リング 山村 貞子'.encode("utf-8")
print(jp)
chinese = u'五行'.encode("utf-8")
print(chinese)
MIR = u'Машина для Инженерных Расчётов'.encode("utf-8")
print(MIR)
pt = u'Minha Língua Portuguesa: çáà'.encode("utf-8")
print(pt)

Unhappy output:

b'Leo\xc5\xa1 Jan\xc3\xa1\xc4\x8dek'
b'Zdzis\xc5\x82aw Beksi\xc5\x84ski'
b'\xe3\x83\xaa\xe3\x83\xb3\xe3\x82\xb0 \xe5\xb1\xb1\xe6\x9d\x91 \xe8\xb2\x9e\xe5\xad\x90'
b'\xe4\xba\x94\xe8\xa1\x8c'
b'\xd0\x9c\xd0\xb0\xd1\x88\xd0\xb8\xd0\xbd\xd0\xb0 \xd0\xb4\xd0\xbb\xd1\x8f \xd0\x98\xd0\xbd\xd0\xb6\xd0\xb5\xd0\xbd\xd0\xb5\xd1\x80\xd0\xbd\xd1\x8b\xd1\x85 \xd0\xa0\xd0\xb0\xd1\x81\xd1\x87\xd1\x91\xd1\x82\xd0\xbe\xd0\xb2'
b'Minha L\xc3\xadngua Portuguesa: \xc3\xa7\xc3\xa1\xc3\xa0'

And if I print them like this:

jp = u'リング 山村 貞子'
print(jp)

I get:

Traceback (most recent call last):
 File "x.py", line 5, in <module>
 print(jp)
 File "C:\Python34\lib\encodings\cp850.py", line 19, in encode
 return codecs.charmap_encode(input,self.errors,encoding_map)[0]
UnicodeEncodeError: 'charmap' codec can't encode characters in position
0-2: character maps to <undefined>

I've also tried the following from this question (And other alternatives that involve sys.stdout.encoding):

#!/usr/bin/env python
# -*- coding: utf-8 -*-
from __future__ import print_function
import sys
def safeprint(s):
 try:
 print(s)
 except UnicodeEncodeError:
 if sys.version_info >= (3,):
 print(s.encode('utf8').decode(sys.stdout.encoding))
 else:
 print(s.encode('utf8'))
jp = u'リング 山村 貞子'
safeprint(jp)

And things get even more cryptic:

πâ¬πâ│πé░ σ▒▒μ\æ Φ▓₧σ¡É

And the docs were not very helpful.

So, what's the deal with Python 3.4, Unicode, different languages and Windows? Almost all possible examples I could find, deal with Python 2.x.

Is there a general and cross-platform way of printing ANY Unicode character from any language in a decent and non-nasty way in Python 3.4?

EDIT:

I've tried typing at the terminal:

chcp 65001

To change the code page, as proposed here and in the comments, and it did not work (Including the attempt with sys.stdout.encoding)