diff --git a/utils/incrparse/test_util.py b/utils/incrparse/test_util.py
index 654887b12efde..fce7532251193 100755
--- a/utils/incrparse/test_util.py
+++ b/utils/incrparse/test_util.py
@@ -23,7 +23,12 @@ def escapeCmdArg(arg):
 def run_command(cmd):
     if sys.version_info[0] < 3:
         cmd = list(map(lambda s: s.encode('utf-8'), cmd))
-    print(' '.join([escapeCmdArg(arg) for arg in cmd]))
+    cmdStr = ' '.join([escapeCmdArg(arg) for arg in cmd])
+    if not sys.stdout.encoding.lower().startswith('utf'):
+        # stdout doesn't support Unicode characters, encode them into an escape
+        # sequence
+        cmdStr = cmdStr.encode('utf-8')
+    print(cmdStr)
     if sys.version_info[0] < 3 or platform.system() == 'Windows':
         return subprocess.check_output(cmd, stderr=subprocess.STDOUT)
     else: