Whether or not that works in 3k depends on your console's encoding; your
program works just fine for me in Linux, with a UTF-8 console.

Python 2.5 was not using a "system page" (whatever that is); it was
sending the bytes to the terminal as-is, which then could interpret them
according to whatever encoding it choses to. Again, on a UTF-8 terminal,
sending individual bytes above 128 is meaningless, so the console had to
deal with it somehow.

I fail to see a Python problem in this report, so I'm closing it as
"works for me".