Requests needs Unicode-only output

[singlerider]

!request, when coupled with video request with non-unicode characters, such as Korean characters, etc. will provide an error message, even though the video still gets appended to the YouTube playlist.

[tehNinth]

Uh I just killed Lorenzo by nick naming a Pokemon with Japanese.
He's stopped responding, hurry.

[tehNinth]

BOT IS DOWN AGAIN

Apparently the utf-8 saved correctly, the only issue is displaying it.
(derived from me typing !party members and the bot hanging again)
I'm really sorry, I didn't know

Please remove my third Pokemon's nickname

This could be a thing to do:
https://mathiasbynens.be/notes/mysql-utf8mb4

Otherwise the issue probably stems from here:
https://github.com/singlerider/lorenzotherobot/blob/master/src/lib/queries/pokemon_queries.py#L80

[singlerider]

Thanks for the comments