From 805f49b985252d9149d4024bfaefab83394819cc Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: jacob1 <jfu614@gmail.com>
Date: Mon, 16 Feb 2015 22:53:12 -0500
Subject: [PATCH] =?UTF-8?q?fix=20crash=20when=20displaying=20certain=20cha?=
 =?UTF-8?q?racters=20on=20windows=20=E0=B2=A0=5F=E0=B2=A0?=
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---
 tools/__init__.py | 6 +++++-
 1 file changed, 5 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/tools/__init__.py b/tools/__init__.py
index 02f264f..a6fcb75 100644
--- a/tools/__init__.py
+++ b/tools/__init__.py
@@ -2,6 +2,10 @@ import botconfig
 import datetime
 import time
 
+# replace characters that can't be encoded with '?'
+# since windows likes to use weird encodings by default
+utf8stdout = open(1, 'w', errors="replace", closefd=False) # stdout
+
 def get_timestamp():
     """Returns a timestamp with timezone + offset from UTC."""
     if botconfig.USE_UTC:
@@ -30,7 +34,7 @@ def logger(file, write=True, display=True):
             display = True
         timestamp = get_timestamp()
         if display:
-            print(timestamp + output)
+            print(timestamp + output, file=utf8stdout)
         if write and file is not None:
             with open(file, "a") as f:
                 f.seek(0, 2)