From b7f1d28347df3fa60d6bd0fccb154fa8c1f03cde Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Ruud <ruud@crashdummy.nl>
Date: Sun, 1 Jul 2012 11:30:47 +0200
Subject: [PATCH] Do some default encoding on start. fix #520

---
 couchpotato/core/logger.py | 2 +-
 couchpotato/environment.py | 2 +-
 2 files changed, 2 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)

diff --git a/couchpotato/core/logger.py b/couchpotato/core/logger.py
index 1f5206ac..8d8c9f59 100644
--- a/couchpotato/core/logger.py
+++ b/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'):
 
diff --git a/couchpotato/environment.py b/couchpotato/environment.py
index e804170d..d8c03c7c 100644
--- a/couchpotato/environment.py
+++ b/couchpotato/environment.py
@@ -11,7 +11,7 @@ class Env(object):
     _appname = 'CouchPotato'
 
     ''' Environment variables '''
-    _encoding = ''
+    _encoding = 'UTF-8'
     _debug = False
     _dev = False
     _settings = Settings()