Convert cprint input to UTF8 before handing off to be written to prevent UnicodeEncodeError

cprint throws a UnicodeEncodeError given any string containing non-ascii (unicode) characters. To avoid the error, convert the string input to cprint to UTF8 before handing it off to the output stream.

Error Details: 
Fatal Error: 'ascii' codec can't encode character u'\u2026' in position 181: ordinal not in range(128) resulting from running usr/local/bin/sprintly with an open ticket whose title contains a non-ascii character (e.g., u'\u2026').