diff --git a/osxauditor.py b/osxauditor.py
index a51a887..136a7d4 100755
--- a/osxauditor.py
+++ b/osxauditor.py
@@ -69,6 +69,10 @@
 
 VT_API_KEY  = os.getenv('VT_API_KEY', False)
 
+# print should be UTF-8 ready
+UTF8Writer = codecs.getwriter('utf8')
+sys.stdout = UTF8Writer(sys.stdout)
+
 try:
     from urllib.request import urlopen                          #python3
 except ImportError: