UnicodeEncodeError: 'ascii' codec can't encode characters

Sometimes went not filtering the log by package name I run into this error:

> Traceback (most recent call last):
>  File "./pidcat.py", line 305, in <module>
>    print(linebuf)
> UnicodeEncodeError: 'ascii' codec can't encode characters in position 117-118: ordinal not in range(128)