How to fix encoding error?

Question

Python

Uploaded python code to VPS Ubuntu 18.04 LTS. After starting the error

Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "main.py", line 12, in <module>
    print("\u0411\u043e\u0442 \u0437\u0430\u043f\u0443\u0449\u0435\u043d")
UnicodeEncodeError: 'ascii' codec can't encode characters in position 0-2: ordinal not in range(128)

It works locally, how can I fix it?

Answer 1

Fixed the error by running the command
export PYTHONIOENCODING=utf-8

Answer 2

Wouldn't something like this help?
https://skalolaskovy.ru/python/462-python-and-cyrillic
(there, however, only about the Russian text)