How to solve UnicodeDecodeError in Python 3.6?

I switched from Python 2.7 to Python 3.6.

I have scripts that deal with some non-English content.

I usually run scripts via Cron and also in Terminal.

I had UnicodeDecodeError in my Python 2.7 scripts and I solved by this.

# encoding=utf8  import sys  reload(sys)  sys.setdefaultencoding('utf8')

Now in Python 3.6, it doesnt work. I have print statements like print("Here %s" % (myvar)) and it throws error. I can solve this issue by replacing it to myvar.encode("utf-8") but I don't want to write with each print statement.

I did PYTHONIOENCODING=utf-8 in my terminal and I have still that issue.

Is there a cleaner way to solve UnicodeDecodeError issue in Python 3.6?

is there any way to tell Python3 to print everything in utf-8? just like I did in Python2?