diff --git a/resources/lib/loghandler.py b/resources/lib/loghandler.py
index b7bb8789..e6df6059 100644
--- a/resources/lib/loghandler.py
+++ b/resources/lib/loghandler.py
@@ -12,22 +12,6 @@ LEVELS = {
 ###############################################################################
 
 
-def try_encode(uniString, encoding='utf-8'):
-    """
-    Will try to encode uniString (in unicode) to encoding. This possibly
-    fails with e.g. Android TV's Python, which does not accept arguments for
-    string.encode()
-    """
-    if isinstance(uniString, str):
-        # already encoded
-        return uniString
-    try:
-        uniString = uniString.encode(encoding, "ignore")
-    except TypeError:
-        uniString = uniString.encode()
-    return uniString
-
-
 def config():
     logger = logging.getLogger('PLEX')
     logger.addHandler(LogHandler())
@@ -40,10 +24,4 @@ class LogHandler(logging.StreamHandler):
         self.setFormatter(logging.Formatter(fmt='%(name)s: %(message)s'))
 
     def emit(self, record):
-        if isinstance(record.msg, str):
-            record.msg = record.msg.encode('utf-8')
-        try:
-            xbmc.log(self.format(record), level=LEVELS[record.levelno])
-        except UnicodeEncodeError:
-            xbmc.log(try_encode(self.format(record)),
-                     level=LEVELS[record.levelno])
+        xbmc.log(self.format(record), level=LEVELS[record.levelno])