title: How to work with UTF-8 in Python 2.7?
body: <p>I just want to get UTF-8 working. I tried this:</p>
  
  <pre><code>#!/usr/bin/env python
  # -*- coding: utf-8 -*- 
  
  t = "одобрение за"
  print t
  </code></pre>
  
  <p>But when I run this program from the command line, output looks like: ╨╛╨┤╨╛╨▒╤Ç╨╡╨╜╨╕╨╡ ╨╖╨░</p>
  
  <p>I've searched up and down the net, tried the whole sys.setdefaultencoding thing, tried calling encode() and decode(), tried placing the little "u" in front, tried unicode(), etc.</p>
  
  <p>I'm about ready to explode from frustration. Is there a definitive answer for what the heck you're supposed to do?</p>