[Python] Injecting unicode characters via termios.TIOCSTI

I have a piece of python code that injects entries from the bash history into the command prompt.

Everything worked perfectly until I switched to Python 3. Now German Umlaute appear wrong.

eg.

python3 console_test.py mööp


results in:

$ m�


Here's the relevant code:

import fcntl
import sys
import termios

command = sys.argv[1]

fd = sys.stdin.fileno()
old = termios.tcgetattr(fd)
new = termios.tcgetattr(fd)
new[3] = new[3] & ~termios.ECHO # disable echo
termios.tcsetattr(fd, termios.TCSANOW, new)
for c in command:
fcntl.ioctl(fd, termios.TIOCSTI, c)
termios.tcsetattr(fd, termios.TCSANOW, old)


I tried encoding the input to utf-8 but that gave me:

OSError: [Errno 14] Bad address

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