diff --git a/vocoder/display.py b/vocoder/display.py
index 9872be238838c76141c1509dabbcf8ca380803d7..956880722a3f05613ebd06f5686b3d8a59642e92 100644
--- a/vocoder/display.py
+++ b/vocoder/display.py
@@ -13,7 +13,12 @@ def progbar(i, n, size=16):
 
 
 def stream(message) :
-    sys.stdout.write("\r{%s}" % message)
+    try:
+        sys.stdout.write("\r{%s}" % message)
+    except:
+        #Remove non-ASCII characters from message
+        message = ''.join(i for i in message if ord(i)<128)
+        sys.stdout.write("\r{%s}" % message)
 
 
 def simple_table(item_tuples) :