Do some default encoding on start. fix #520

couchpotato/core/logger.py

@@ -48,7 +48,7 @@ class CPLog(object):
                 else:
                     msg = msg % ss(replace_tuple)
             except:
-                self.error('Failed encoding stuff to log: %s' % traceback.format_exc())
+                self.logger.error(u'Failed encoding stuff to log: %s' % traceback.format_exc())
 
         if not Env.get('dev'):
 

couchpotato/environment.py

@@ -11,7 +11,7 @@ class Env(object):
     _appname = 'CouchPotato'
 
     ''' Environment variables '''
-    _encoding = ''
+    _encoding = 'UTF-8'
     _debug = False
     _dev = False
     _settings = Settings()