diff --git a/utils/helperutils.py b/utils/helperutils.py
index 218ce23..8a648d2 100644
--- a/utils/helperutils.py
+++ b/utils/helperutils.py
@@ -2,10 +2,9 @@ from datetime import datetime, timedelta
 
 def log(value):
    
-    try: print( str(datetime.now()) + ' ' + value)
-    
+    try: 
+       print(str(datetime.now()) + ' ' + value.encode("utf-8"))
     except UnicodeEncodeError:
-        print((str(datetime.now()) + ' ' + value).encode('ascii', 'ignore').decode('ascii'))
-    return print(str(datetime.now()) + ' print error')
+      print(str(datetime.now()) + ' print error')
    
     #print(u' '.join(( str(datetime.now()), value)).encode('utf-8').strip())
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