Index: squid-tagger.py
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--- squid-tagger.py
+++ squid-tagger.py
@@ -106,24 +106,22 @@
 		self._tail = gevent.queue.Queue()
 		self._worker = None
 
 	def emit(self, record):
 		# my syslog is broken and cannot into UTF-8 BOM
-		record.msg = str(record.msg)
+		record.msg = record.msg.encode('utf-8')
 		self._tail.put(record)
 		if self._worker == None:
 			# in case queue is empty we will spawn new worker
 			# all workers are logged so we can kill them on close()
 			self._worker = gevent.spawn(self._writer)
 
 	def _writer(self):
 		# here we are locking the queue so we can be sure we are the only one
-		print('syslog start')
 		while not self._tail.empty():
 			logging.handlers.SysLogHandler.emit(self, self._tail.get())
 		self._worker = None
-		print('syslog end')
 
 	def close(self):
 		if self._worker != None:
 			gevent.kill(self._worker)
 		logging.handlers.SysLogHandler.close(self)