diff --git a/lib/ansible/callbacks.py b/lib/ansible/callbacks.py
index 08da6630fb..5274a6f8a5 100644
--- a/lib/ansible/callbacks.py
+++ b/lib/ansible/callbacks.py
@@ -128,9 +128,15 @@ def display(msg, color=None, stderr=False, screen_only=False, log_only=False, ru
         msg2 = stringc(msg, color)
     if not log_only:
         if not stderr:
-            print msg2
+            try:
+                print msg2
+            except UnicodeEncodeError:
+                print msg2.encode('utf-8')
         else:
-            print >>sys.stderr, msg2
+            try:
+                print >>sys.stderr, msg2
+            except UnicodeEncodeError:
+                print >>sys.stderr, msg2.encode('utf-8')
     if constants.DEFAULT_LOG_PATH != '':
         while msg.startswith("\n"):
             msg = msg.replace("\n","")