diff --git a/awx/lib/site-packages/README b/awx/lib/site-packages/README
index d72e81e327..9e32d8c671 100644
--- a/awx/lib/site-packages/README
+++ b/awx/lib/site-packages/README
@@ -2,7 +2,7 @@ Local versions of third-party packages required by Tower.  Package names and
 versions are listed below, along with notes on which files are included.
 
 amqp==1.4.5 (amqp/*)
-ansiconv==1.0.0 (ansiconv.py)
+ansiconv==1.0.0 (ansiconv.py, small fix, generate unicode html)
 anyjson==0.3.3 (anyjson/*)
 apache-libcloud==0.15.1 (libcloud/*)
 argparse==1.2.1 (argparse.py, needed for Python 2.6 support)
diff --git a/awx/lib/site-packages/ansiconv.py b/awx/lib/site-packages/ansiconv.py
index e76448f61a..d0a66df5cd 100644
--- a/awx/lib/site-packages/ansiconv.py
+++ b/awx/lib/site-packages/ansiconv.py
@@ -122,6 +122,7 @@ def _block_to_html(text):
             classes.append('ansi{0}'.format(code))
 
     if classes:
-        text = '<span class="{0}">{1}</span>'.format(' '.join(classes), text)
+        text = u'<span class="{0}">{1}</span>'.format(' '.join(classes), text)
 
     return command, text
+