The fix given by gbrandl, which is to use 

sys.stdout = codecs.EncodedFile(sys.stdout, 'utf-8')

does not work. EncodedFile expects to receive encoded strings, so if you try to use it with Unicode strings, you get errors. I could of course 

I tried

sys.stdout = codecs.open(sys.stdout, 'w', 'utf-8')

but that gives me "Type Error: coercing to Unicode: need string or buffer, file found."

Since this was (absurdly) closed as invalid, are there any good fixes that actually work?