diff --git a/modules/bash/bash.sh b/modules/bash/bash.sh
index 6938a01..9d17e16 100755
--- a/modules/bash/bash.sh
+++ b/modules/bash/bash.sh
@@ -8,5 +8,5 @@ quote="${quote//&lt;/ <}"
 quote="${quote//&gt;/> }"
 quote="${quote%%<p class*}"
 quote="$(echo "$quote" | w3m -dump -T text/html)"
-msg "$2" "$(echo "$quote" | tr -cd '[:print:]')"
+msg "$2" "$(echo "$quote" | iconv -f utf-8 -t ascii)"
 set +f
diff --git a/modules/fml/fml.sh b/modules/fml/fml.sh
index 7dbf707..7fa7604 100755
--- a/modules/fml/fml.sh
+++ b/modules/fml/fml.sh
@@ -1,6 +1,6 @@
 [ -f functions.sh ] && source functions.sh
 
-fml="$(curl -Ls --connect-timeout 5 https://fmylife.com/random | grep -m1 -A1 '<a class="article-link" href="/article/.*>' | tail -1 | w3m -dump -T text/html | tr '[:space:]' ' ' | tr -cd '[:print:]')"
+fml="$(curl -Ls --connect-timeout 5 https://fmylife.com/random | grep -m1 -A1 '<a class="article-link" href="/article/.*>' | tail -1 | w3m -dump -T text/html | tr '[:space:]' ' ' | iconv -f utf-8 -t ascii)"
 
 if [[ ${#fml} -gt 10 ]]; then
     msg "$2" "${fml}"