Unicode support in Python?

I'm currently collaborating on a Python program with an another user on KA.

Part of it involves printing characters with accent signs. However, mojibake happens and I cannot properly print it. I tried using the following code:

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

But it doesn't work. How do I print Unicode characters in KA Python? Or are ASCII characters the only supported ones?

Edit: the letter é turns into é