tool wanted: to convert utf8 <-> unicode in hex

[Skaperen]

i do get Cyrillic just fine and readable (i can read some of it) when the command/program outputs genuine UTF-8 bytes. it works for me when i do os.write(1,...) of byte-type data. i think there is some config setting i don't have to cause print() to convert Unicode to UTF-8 by default (maybe term type).

Output:
lt1/forums /home/forums 13> py3
Python 3.5.2 (default, Nov 23 2017, 16:37:01) 
[GCC 5.4.0 20160609] on linux
Type "help", "copyright", "credits" or "license" for more information.
>>> import os
>>> x=os.write(1,b'\xd0\xaf\x0a')
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>>> 
lt1/forums /home/forums 14>

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