Firstly, I am aware that there are tons of questions regarding en/de-coding of strings in Python 2.x, but I can't seem to find a solution to this problem.

I have a unicode string, that contains letter `č` which is represented as `\u00c4\u008d`

If in Python console I write

```
>>> a = u"\u00c4\u008d"
>>> print a

```

I get two strange characters printed out instead of `č`, probably because the actual encoding of that string is supposed to be UTF-8. Therefore I try to use `.decode("utf-8")` but for this I get the standard `UnicodeEncodeError`.

Do you know how I can make Python print that string as `č` in the console?

Thanks a lot