How to emit Cyrillic and Chinese via unicode from console mode?

["Martin v. Löwis"]

> Can someone point me to an example of a little program that emits non-ascii 
> Unicode characters (Russian or Chinese perhaps)? The unicode 
> Russian/Cyrillic alphabet starts at 0x410. Is this possible to do in a 
> console mode program? If not, I guess I would want to use pywin32 to create 
> a window and a message pump and display it there. I anticipate using pywin32 
> for some other function calls.

It also depends on your console. On Linux, with an UTF-8
capable-and-enabled console,

py> print u"\u0413"
Г

work just fine.

Regards,
Martin