diff --git a/README.md b/README.md
index 725b1e3..f95df49 100644
--- a/README.md
+++ b/README.md
@@ -17,7 +17,7 @@ This is a bot that logs public Group Chats to a Postgres Database.
  ```
  - Create a Telegram group.
  - Add your bot to the group like so: https://stackoverflow.com/questions/37338101/how-to-add-a-bot-to-a-telegram-group
- - Your bot only sees commands. Use `/setprivacy` with `@BotFather` in order to allow it to see all messages in a group.
+ - Use `/setprivacy` with `@BotFather` in order to allow it to see all messages in a group.
 
 ## Running the bot
 
diff --git a/bot.py b/bot.py
index 59a42a3..74fae5a 100644
--- a/bot.py
+++ b/bot.py
@@ -39,7 +39,7 @@ def logger(bot, update):
         else:
             print("Something went wrong adding the user {}".format(user.id))
 
-    print("{} : {}".format(user.username,update.message.text))
+    print("{} : {}".format(user.username.encode('utf-8'),update.message.text.encode('utf-8')))
 
 # DB queries