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/core/plugins/log/main.py b/couchpotato/core/plugins/log/main.py
index 83e190ab..e6ff1133 100644
--- a/couchpotato/core/plugins/log/main.py
+++ b/couchpotato/core/plugins/log/main.py
@@ -73,7 +73,7 @@ class Logging(Plugin):
 
         return jsonified({
             'success': True,
-            'log': log,
+            'log': toUnicode(log),
             'total': total,
         })
 
diff --git a/couchpotato/core/plugins/log/static/log.css b/couchpotato/core/plugins/log/static/log.css
index ec1f838c..222b8efa 100644
--- a/couchpotato/core/plugins/log/static/log.css
+++ b/couchpotato/core/plugins/log/static/log.css
@@ -59,6 +59,7 @@
 		width: 14%;
 		color: lightgrey;
 		padding: 3px 0;
+		font-size: 10px;
 	}
 
 	.page.log .container .time:last-child { display: none; }
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()
diff --git a/couchpotato/static/style/main.css b/couchpotato/static/style/main.css
index d86fbbd6..f5630f33 100644
--- a/couchpotato/static/style/main.css
+++ b/couchpotato/static/style/main.css
@@ -581,7 +581,7 @@ body > .spinner, .mask{
 			}
 			
 .messages {
-	position: absolute;
+	position: fixed;
 	right: 0;
 	bottom: 0;
 	padding: 2px;