fix unicode issues

[CapCap]

Short Description:

Fixes:

- #1814

[vieira]

The problem is that the log function is sometimes called with an already decoded utf8 str while some other times it is called with an unicode sequence that needs to be decoded before print.

def log(string, color='white'):
    try:
        string = string.decode('utf8')
    except UnicodeEncodeError:
        pass

<rest of the original code>

This is enough to fix the problem and make log work with both str and unicode sequences.

[DayBr3ak]

190640f makes this irrelevant

[vieira]

@DayBr3ak still getting errors if the initial location contains any special characters.

[vieira]

#1825 should fix the issue with the initial location.