From e54f05826c45b62c97d292229be1120e51aef184 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Otto Winter <otto@otto-winter.com>
Date: Sat, 19 Jan 2019 16:48:16 +0100
Subject: [PATCH] Fix Non-ASCII characters being escaped if in wrong locale
 (#369)

---
 esphomeyaml/util.py | 7 +++++--
 1 file changed, 5 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)

diff --git a/esphomeyaml/util.py b/esphomeyaml/util.py
index eebb4b7c93..64835ce49c 100644
--- a/esphomeyaml/util.py
+++ b/esphomeyaml/util.py
@@ -42,9 +42,12 @@ def safe_print(message=""):
         pass
 
     try:
-        print(message.encode('ascii', 'backslashreplace'))
+        print(message.encode('utf-8', 'backslashreplace'))
     except UnicodeEncodeError:
-        print("Cannot print line because of invalid locale!")
+        try:
+            print(message.encode('ascii', 'backslashreplace'))
+        except UnicodeEncodeError:
+            print("Cannot print line because of invalid locale!")
 
 
 def shlex_quote(s):