I'm withdrawing this fix.  The deeper issue is that LANG appears to be messed up when the script is run and that needs to be diagnosed instead.

Revert "Bug 1005421 - the ps command was returning unicode characters, strip them out."

This reverts commit 70d7b0c718225f505be206cde27a5c9795f02d25.
Merge pull request #3606 from rmillner/BZ1005421

Merged by openshift-bot