Trying to delete folders with Unicode names

def removeEmptyFolders(path):
  if not os.path.isdir(path):
    return

  # remove empty subfolders
  files = os.listdir(path)
  if len(files):
    for f in files:
      fullpath = os.path.join(path, f)
      if os.path.isdir(fullpath):
        removeEmptyFolders(fullpath)

  # if folder empty, delete it
  files = os.listdir(path)
  if len(files) == 0:
    print "Removing empty folder:", path
    os.rmdir(path)

I'm trying to use this code to delete empty folders, but it doesn't detect folders with characters like » and ▶...

I've tried enclosing all my path variables in unicode(), but that returns things like:

5.0\bin\2.7\src.zip\debug\tserver\dbgutils.py", line 1491, in write
UnicodeEncodeError: 'cp932' codec can't encode character u'\xbb' in position 54: illegal multibyte sequence.

I've done

reload(sys)
sys.setdefaultencoding("utf-8")

But that doesn't help either..,

...

Should I just switch to Python 3?