How do I get the MySQL command line tools to display Unicode correctly?

I am using a Python program to write text containing Unicode characters to a MySQL database. For example, two of the characters are

u'\u2640' a symbol for Venus or female
u'\u2642' a symbol for Mars or male

I use utf8mb4 for almost all MySQL-related character sets. Here is an excerpt from /etc/mysql/my.cnf

[client]
default-character-set=utf8mb4

[mysql]
default-character-set=utf8mb4

[mysqld]
default-character-set=utf8mb4
character-set-server =utf8mb4
character_set_system =utf8mb4

Additionally, all tables are created with the following parameters:

ENGINE=InnoDB DEFAULT CHARSET=utf8mb4 COLLATE=utf8mb4_unicode_ci

In all but one, the handling of Unicode works just fine. I can write Unicode to a database table, read it, display it, etc. without any problems. The exception is mysql, which is the MySQL command line tool. When I execute a SELECT statement to view rows in a table containing Venus and Mars Unicode characters, here is what I see on the screen:

| Venus     | ♀      |
| Mars      | ♂      |

What I should see in the right column are the standard glyphs for Venus and Mars.

Any ideas on how to get the MySQL command line tools to display Unicode correctly?

edit:

I've done a lot of research on various MySQL system variables etc, and now I realize that the my.cnf setup shown above has some serious issues. In fact, the server mysqld will not start with the settings shown. To correct the problem, remove these from [mysqld]:

default-character-set=utf8mb4
character-set-system=utf8mb4

I'm not sure what the [client] option does, but it doesn't seem to hurt.

In Python u'\u2640' represents a single Unicode character, "♀". This compiles to three bytes containing the hex value E29980. I have no problems encoding and decoding Unicode. The correct values ​​are stored in the MySQL table; they are correctly read from the table, and when displayed by a Python program, they appear as follows:

♀   Venus
♂   Mars

Program output can be redirected to a file, processed by a text editor, etc., and the correct Unicode symbols are displayed in all cases.

There is only one place where the correct Unicode symbols are not displayed, and that is when I use the MySQL command line tools. When I issue a SELECT statement on a table that contains Unicode symbols, I get the garbage shown above. This is not a Windows specific issue. I had the exact same problem when I ran the MySQL command line tool on Windows, Mac OS X and Ubuntu.