UTF-8 characters in the report fail the action

[asarkar]

Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "/usr/bin/extractReport.py", line 51, in <module>
    main()
  File "/usr/bin/extractReport.py", line 48, in main
    parseXML(path)
  File "/usr/bin/extractReport.py", line 37, in parseXML
    print(message)
UnicodeEncodeError: 'ascii' codec can't encode characters in position 18152-18153: ordinal not in range(128)

The character in question is █, Unicode block character.