diff --git a/lib/Pinto/Chrome/Net.pm b/lib/Pinto/Chrome/Net.pm
index 1546af89..c1d44f4b 100644
--- a/lib/Pinto/Chrome/Net.pm
+++ b/lib/Pinto/Chrome/Net.pm
@@ -6,6 +6,8 @@ use Moose;
 use MooseX::StrictConstructor;
 use MooseX::MarkAsMethods ( autoclean => 1 );
 
+use Encode qw( encode_utf8 );
+
 use Pinto::Types qw(Io);
 use Pinto::Util qw(itis);
 use Pinto::Constants qw(:protocol);
@@ -58,7 +60,7 @@ sub diag {
     # messages that go to stderr and those that should go to stdout
     $msg =~ s/^/$PINTO_PROTOCOL_DIAG_PREFIX/gmx;
 
-    print { $self->stderr } $msg or croak $!;
+    print { $self->stderr } encode_utf8( $msg ) or croak $!;
 }
 
 #-----------------------------------------------------------------------------
@@ -70,7 +72,7 @@ sub show_progress {
 
     $self->stderr->autoflush;    # Make sure pipes are hot
 
-    print { $self->stderr } $PINTO_PROTOCOL_PROGRESS_MESSAGE . "\n" or croak $!;
+    print { $self->stderr } encode_utf8( $PINTO_PROTOCOL_PROGRESS_MESSAGE . "\n" ) or croak $!;
 }
 
 #-----------------------------------------------------------------------------
diff --git a/lib/Pinto/Chrome/Term.pm b/lib/Pinto/Chrome/Term.pm
index 1cb7704d..07a7f474 100644
--- a/lib/Pinto/Chrome/Term.pm
+++ b/lib/Pinto/Chrome/Term.pm
@@ -9,6 +9,7 @@ use MooseX::MarkAsMethods ( autoclean => 1 );
 
 use Term::ANSIColor;
 use File::Which qw(which);
+use Encode qw( encode_utf8 );
 
 use Pinto::Editor;
 use Pinto::Types qw(Io ANSIColorPalette);
@@ -94,7 +95,7 @@ sub show {
 
     $msg .= "\n" unless $opts->{no_newline};
 
-    print { $self->stdout } $msg or croak $!;
+    print { $self->stdout } encode_utf8( $msg ) or croak $!;
 
     return $self;
 }
@@ -120,7 +121,7 @@ sub diag {
     $msg = $self->colorize( $msg, $opts->{color} );
     $msg .= "\n" unless $opts->{no_newline};
 
-    print { $self->stderr } $msg or croak $!;
+    print { $self->stderr } encode_utf8( $msg ) or croak $!;
 }
 
 #-----------------------------------------------------------------------------
@@ -132,7 +133,7 @@ sub show_progress {
 
     $self->stderr->autoflush;    # Make sure pipes are hot
 
-    print { $self->stderr } '.' or croak $!;
+    print { $self->stderr } encode_utf8( '.' ) or croak $!;
 
     $self->has_made_progress(1);
 }
@@ -145,7 +146,7 @@ sub progress_done {
     return unless $self->has_made_progress;
     return unless $self->should_render_progress;
 
-    print { $self->stderr } "\n" or croak $!;
+    print { $self->stderr } encode_utf8( "\n" ) or croak $!;
 }
 
 #-----------------------------------------------------------------------------