Unicode characters not rendering with PIL ImageFont

Unicode characters not rendering with PIL ImageFont

I'm trying to write tiff images using box drawing characters, but all of
the characters in question show up as:
The box draw characters (e.g. "©°©¤©´©¦©¸©¼¨b¨T¨e¨h¨k¨\¨_") were pasted
directly into the source code, and they show up correctly when saved to a
text file, but I don't understand why they're not showing up on the image.
Here is an example of the code I'm using to draw the image:
# coding=utf-8
text = "©°©¤©´©¦©¸©¼¨b¨T¨e¨h¨k¨\¨_"
from PIL import Image, ImageDraw, ImageFont, TiffImagePlugin
img = Image.new("1",(1200,1600),1)
font = ImageFont.truetype("cour.ttf",14,encoding="unic")
draw = ImageDraw.Draw(img)
draw.text((40,0), text, font=font, fill=0)
img.save("imagefile.tif","TIFF")
I'm using python version 2.7.2 on Windows 7.