diff -r b3d1b356e544 -r 588aff83bb87 hgpoll.py
--- a/hgpoll.py	Sun Aug 02 17:15:00 2015 +0300
+++ b/hgpoll.py	Mon Aug 03 19:45:57 2015 +0300
@@ -439,6 +439,11 @@
 			Irc.broadcast ('Error while processing %s: %s' % (commit_node, e))
 			continue
 
+	# Encode messages
+	for messagelist in messages:
+		for i in range (0, len (messagelist)):
+			messagelist[i] = messagelist[i].decode ("utf-8", "ignore").encode("ascii", "ignore")
+
 	fullMessageLength = len (''.join (messages[2]))
 
 	if fullMessageLength > 3000: