Converting unicode string to utf-8

Firstly, I am aware that there are tons of questions regarding en/de-coding of strings in Python 2.x, but I can't seem to find a solution to this problem.

I have a unicode string, that contains letter č which is represented as \u00c4\u008d

If in Python console I write

>>> a = u"\u00c4\u008d">>> print a

I get two strange characters printed out instead of č, probably because the actual encoding of that string is supposed to be UTF-8. Therefore I try to use .decode("utf-8") but for this I get the standard UnicodeEncodeError.

Do you know how I can make Python print that string as č in the console?