unicode bit me

[anuraguniyal at yahoo.com]

First of all thanks everybody for putting time with my confusing post
and I apologize for not being clear after so many efforts.

here is my last try (you are free to ignore my request for free
advice)

# -*- coding: utf-8 -*-

class A(object):

    def __unicode__(self):
        return u"©au"

    def __repr__(self):
        return unicode(self).encode("utf-8")

    __str__ = __repr__

a = A()
u1 = unicode(a)
u2 = unicode([a])

now I am not using print so that doesn't matter stdout can print
unicode or not
my naive question is line u2 = unicode([a]) throws
UnicodeDecodeError: 'ascii' codec can't decode byte 0xc2 in position
1: ordinal not in range(128)

shouldn't list class call unicode on its elements? I was expecting
that
so instead do i had to do this
u3 = "["+u",".join(map(unicode,[a]))+"]"