hi i can reproduce with a ubuntu bionic or mint19 client toward a python3.4.3 reached via ssh server:

 - via mate-terminal or terminator  :

same behaviour as OP report


 - meanwhile using the same python3 directly via vnc + xterm gives :


pm / # python3
Python 3.4.3 (default, Nov 12 2018, 22:25:49) 
[GCC 4.8.4] on linux
Type "help", "copyright", "credits" or "license" for more information.
>>> print( chr(152) )
Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "<stdin>", line 1, in <module>
UnicodeEncodeError: 'ascii' codec can't encode character '\x98' in position 0: ordinal not in range(128)
>>>