adding in unicode conversion

pykat/finesse.py

@@ -885,6 +885,9 @@ class kat(object):
             for line in iter(p.stderr.readline, ""):
                 
                 if len(line) > 0:
+                    if isinstance(line, unicode):
+                        import unicodedata
+                        line = unicodedata.normalize('NFKD', line).encode("ascii", "ignore")
                         
                     if line.lstrip().startswith('**'):
                         if self.verbose: sys.stdout.write(line)