A short question about non-ascii characters in list

[js]

>>> print u"äöü"
äöü
>>> print [u"äöü"]
[u'\xe4\xf6\xfc']

Python seems to treat non-ASCII chars in a list differently from the
one in the outside of a list.
I think this behavior is so inconvenient and actually makes debugging
work harder.

Is this an intentional? Is there any doc discussing about this?

Thanks.