@@ -1055,30 +1055,38 @@ are always available.  They are listed here in alphabetical order.
    (where :func:`open` is declared), :mod:`os`, :mod:`os.path`, :mod:`tempfile`,
    and :mod:`shutil`.
 
-   .. versionchanged:: 3.3
-      The *opener* parameter was added.
-      The ``'x'`` mode was added.
-      :exc:`IOError` used to be raised, it is now an alias of :exc:`OSError`.
-      :exc:`FileExistsError` is now raised if the file opened in exclusive
-      creation mode (``'x'``) already exists.
+   .. versionchanged::
+      3.3
 
-   .. versionchanged:: 3.4
-      The file is now non-inheritable.
+         * The *opener* parameter was added.
+         * The ``'x'`` mode was added.
+         * :exc:`IOError` used to be raised, it is now an alias of :exc:`OSError`.
+         * :exc:`FileExistsError` is now raised if the file opened in exclusive
+         * creation mode (``'x'``) already exists.
+
+   .. versionchanged::
+      3.4
+
+         * The file is now non-inheritable.
 
    .. deprecated-removed:: 3.4 4.0
 
       The ``'U'`` mode.
 
-   .. versionchanged:: 3.5
-      If the system call is interrupted and the signal handler does not raise an
-      exception, the function now retries the system call instead of raising an
-      :exc:`InterruptedError` exception (see :pep:`475` for the rationale).
+   .. versionchanged::
+      3.5
 
-   .. versionchanged:: 3.5
-      The ``'namereplace'`` error handler was added.
+         * If the system call is interrupted and the signal handler does not raise an
+           exception, the function now retries the system call instead of raising an
+           :exc:`InterruptedError` exception (see :pep:`475` for the rationale).
+         * The ``'namereplace'`` error handler was added.
 
-   .. versionchanged:: 3.6
-      Support added to accept objects implementing :class:`os.PathLike`.
+   .. versionchanged::
+      3.6
+
+         * Support added to accept objects implementing :class:`os.PathLike`.
+         * On Windows, opening a console buffer may return a subclass of
+           :class:`io.RawIOBase` other than :class:`io.FileIO`.
 
 .. function:: ord(c)
 
 
@@ -559,6 +559,10 @@ conflict.
    .. versionchanged:: 3.4
       The ``encodingname`` part is now optional.
 
+   .. versionchanged:: 3.6
+      On Windows, the encoding specified by this variable is ignored for interactive
+      console buffers unless :envvar:`PYTHONLEGACYWINDOWSIOENCODING` is also specified.
+      Files and pipes redirected through the standard streams are not affected.
 
 .. envvar:: PYTHONNOUSERSITE
 
@@ -686,6 +690,19 @@ conflict.
    .. versionadded:: 3.6
       See :pep:`529` for more details.
 
+.. envvar:: PYTHONLEGACYWINDOWSIOENCODING
+
+   If set to a non-empty string, does not use the new console reader and
+   writer. This means that Unicode characters will be encoded according to
+   the active console code page, rather than using utf-8.
+
+   This variable is ignored if the standard streams are redirected (to files
+   or pipes) rather than referring to console buffers.
+
+   Availability: Windows
+
+   .. versionadded:: 3.6
+
 Debug-mode variables
 ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
 
 
@@ -78,6 +78,8 @@ Windows improvements:
 
 * PEP 529: :ref:`Change Windows filesystem encoding to UTF-8 <pep-529>`
 
+* PEP 528: :ref:`Change Windows console encoding to UTF-8 <pep-528>`
+
 * The ``py.exe`` launcher, when used interactively, no longer prefers
   Python 2 over Python 3 when the user doesn't specify a version (via
   command line arguments or a config file).  Handling of shebang lines
@@ -267,6 +269,23 @@ Also see :pep:`487` and the updated class customization documentation at
 
 (Contributed by Martin Teichmann in :issue:`27366`)
 
+.. _pep-528:
+
+PEP 528: Change Windows console encoding to UTF-8
+-------------------------------------------------
+
+The default console on Windows will now accept all Unicode characters and
+provide correctly read str objects to Python code. ``sys.stdin``,
+``sys.stdout`` and ``sys.stderr`` now default to utf-8 encoding.
+
+This change only applies when using an interactive console, and not when
+redirecting files or pipes. To revert to the previous behaviour for interactive
+console use, set :envvar:`PYTHONLEGACYWINDOWSIOENCODING`.
+
+.. seealso::
+
+   :pep:`528` -- Change Windows console encoding to UTF-8
+      PEP written and implemented by Steve Dower.
 
 PYTHONMALLOC environment variable
 =================================
 
@@ -24,6 +24,10 @@ PyAPI_DATA(int) Py_UnbufferedStdioFlag;
 PyAPI_DATA(int) Py_HashRandomizationFlag;
 PyAPI_DATA(int) Py_IsolatedFlag;
 
+#ifdef MS_WINDOWS
+PyAPI_DATA(int) Py_LegacyWindowsStdioFlag;
+#endif
+
 /* this is a wrapper around getenv() that pays attention to
    Py_IgnoreEnvironmentFlag.  It should be used for getting variables like
    PYTHONPATH and PYTHONHOME from the environment */
 
@@ -90,3 +90,10 @@ class TextIOBase(_io._TextIOBase, IOBase):
 for klass in (StringIO, TextIOWrapper):
     TextIOBase.register(klass)
 del klass
+
+try:
+    from _io import _WindowsConsoleIO
+except ImportError:
+    pass
+else:
+    RawIOBase.register(_WindowsConsoleIO)
@@ -1518,7 +1518,7 @@ class TestInvalidFD(unittest.TestCase):
     singles = ["fchdir", "dup", "fdopen", "fdatasync", "fstat",
                "fstatvfs", "fsync", "tcgetpgrp", "ttyname"]
     #singles.append("close")
-    #We omit close because it doesn'r raise an exception on some platforms
+    #We omit close because it doesn't raise an exception on some platforms
     def get_single(f):
         def helper(self):
             if  hasattr(os, f):
 
@@ -0,0 +1,72 @@
+'''Tests for WindowsConsoleIO
+
+Unfortunately, most testing requires interactive use, since we have no
+API to read back from a real console, and this class is only for use
+with real consoles.
+
+Instead, we validate that basic functionality such as opening, closing
+and in particular fileno() work, but are forced to leave real testing
+to real people with real keyborads.
+'''
+
+import io
+import unittest
+import sys
+
+if sys.platform != 'win32':
+    raise unittest.SkipTest("test only relevant on win32")
+
+ConIO = io._WindowsConsoleIO
+
+class WindowsConsoleIOTests(unittest.TestCase):
+    def test_abc(self):
+        self.assertTrue(issubclass(ConIO, io.RawIOBase))
+        self.assertFalse(issubclass(ConIO, io.BufferedIOBase))
+        self.assertFalse(issubclass(ConIO, io.TextIOBase))
+
+    def test_open_fd(self):
+        f = ConIO(0)
+        self.assertTrue(f.readable())
+        self.assertFalse(f.writable())
+        self.assertEqual(0, f.fileno())
+        f.close()   # multiple close should not crash
+        f.close()
+
+        f = ConIO(1, 'w')
+        self.assertFalse(f.readable())
+        self.assertTrue(f.writable())
+        self.assertEqual(1, f.fileno())
+        f.close()
+        f.close()
+
+        f = ConIO(2, 'w')
+        self.assertFalse(f.readable())
+        self.assertTrue(f.writable())
+        self.assertEqual(2, f.fileno())
+        f.close()
+        f.close()
+
+    def test_open_name(self):
+        f = ConIO("CON")
+        self.assertTrue(f.readable())
+        self.assertFalse(f.writable())
+        self.assertIsNotNone(f.fileno())
+        f.close()   # multiple close should not crash
+        f.close()
+
+        f = ConIO('CONIN$')
+        self.assertTrue(f.readable())
+        self.assertFalse(f.writable())
+        self.assertIsNotNone(f.fileno())
+        f.close()
+        f.close()
+
+        f = ConIO('CONOUT$', 'w')
+        self.assertFalse(f.readable())
+        self.assertTrue(f.writable())
+        self.assertIsNotNone(f.fileno())
+        f.close()
+        f.close()
+
+if __name__ == "__main__":
+    unittest.main()
@@ -300,6 +300,8 @@ Build
 Windows
 -------
 
+- Issue #1602: Windows console doesn't input or print Unicode (PEP 528)
+
 - Issue #27781: Change file system encoding on Windows to UTF-8 (PEP 529)
 
 - Issue #27731: Opt-out of MAX_PATH on Windows 10
@@ -556,7 +558,6 @@ Build
 - Issue #10910: Avoid C++ compilation errors on FreeBSD and OS X.
   Also update FreedBSD version checks for the original ctype UTF-8 workaround.
 
-
 What's New in Python 3.6.0 alpha 3
 ==================================
 
 
@@ -20,6 +20,9 @@
 #include <sys/stat.h>
 #endif /* HAVE_SYS_STAT_H */
 
+#ifdef MS_WINDOWS
+#include <consoleapi.h>
+#endif
 
 /* Various interned strings */
 
@@ -52,7 +55,6 @@ PyObject *_PyIO_empty_str;
 PyObject *_PyIO_empty_bytes;
 PyObject *_PyIO_zero;
 
-
 PyDoc_STRVAR(module_doc,
 "The io module provides the Python interfaces to stream handling. The\n"
 "builtin open function is defined in this module.\n"
@@ -362,8 +364,18 @@ _io_open_impl(PyObject *module, PyObject *file, const char *mode,
     }
 
     /* Create the Raw file stream */
-    raw = PyObject_CallFunction((PyObject *)&PyFileIO_Type,
-                                "OsiO", path_or_fd, rawmode, closefd, opener);
+    {
+        PyObject *RawIO_class = (PyObject *)&PyFileIO_Type;
+#ifdef MS_WINDOWS
+        if (!Py_LegacyWindowsStdioFlag && _PyIO_get_console_type(path_or_fd) != '\0') {
+            RawIO_class = (PyObject *)&PyWindowsConsoleIO_Type;
+            encoding = "utf-8";
+        }
+#endif
+        raw = PyObject_CallFunction(RawIO_class,
+                                    "OsiO", path_or_fd, rawmode, closefd, opener);
+    }
+
     if (raw == NULL)
         goto error;
     result = raw;
@@ -708,6 +720,12 @@ PyInit__io(void)
     PyStringIO_Type.tp_base = &PyTextIOBase_Type;
     ADD_TYPE(&PyStringIO_Type, "StringIO");
 
+#ifdef MS_WINDOWS
+    /* WindowsConsoleIO */
+    PyWindowsConsoleIO_Type.tp_base = &PyRawIOBase_Type;
+    ADD_TYPE(&PyWindowsConsoleIO_Type, "_WindowsConsoleIO");
+#endif
+
     /* BufferedReader */
     PyBufferedReader_Type.tp_base = &PyBufferedIOBase_Type;
     ADD_TYPE(&PyBufferedReader_Type, "BufferedReader");
 
@@ -19,6 +19,12 @@ extern PyTypeObject PyBufferedRandom_Type;
 extern PyTypeObject PyTextIOWrapper_Type;
 extern PyTypeObject PyIncrementalNewlineDecoder_Type;
 
+#ifndef Py_LIMITED_API
+#ifdef MS_WINDOWS
+extern PyTypeObject PyWindowsConsoleIO_Type;
+#define PyWindowsConsoleIO_Check(op) (PyObject_TypeCheck((op), &PyWindowsConsoleIO_Type))
+#endif /* MS_WINDOWS */
+#endif /* Py_LIMITED_API */
 
 extern int _PyIO_ConvertSsize_t(PyObject *, void *);
 
@@ -145,6 +151,10 @@ typedef struct {
 extern _PyIO_State *_PyIO_get_module_state(void);
 extern PyObject *_PyIO_get_locale_module(_PyIO_State *);
 
+#ifdef MS_WINDOWS
+extern char _PyIO_get_console_type(PyObject *);
+#endif
+
 extern PyObject *_PyIO_str_close;
 extern PyObject *_PyIO_str_closed;
 extern PyObject *_PyIO_str_decode;