Unicode literals and byte string interpretation.

If I create a new Unicode object u'\x82\xb1\x82\xea\x82\xcd' how does
this creation process interpret the bytes in the byte string? Does it
assume the string represents a utf-16 encoding, at utf-8 encoding,
etc...?

For reference the string is これは in the 'shift-jis' encoding.
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