diff --git a/export_saved.py b/export_saved.py
index 7e4f5db..b390169 100755
--- a/export_saved.py
+++ b/export_saved.py
@@ -8,7 +8,7 @@
 
 from time import time
 import argparse
-import csv
+import unicodecsv as csv
 import logging
 import sys
 
@@ -67,7 +67,7 @@ def convert(self):
         ifile = open(self._html_file, 'wb')
         try:
             ifile.write(content)
-        except TypeError:
+        except (UnicodeEncodeError, TypeError):
             ifile.write(content.encode('utf-8', 'ignore'))
 
 
@@ -251,7 +251,7 @@ def write_csv(csv_rows, file_name=None):
                 csvwriter.writerow(row)
     except (UnicodeEncodeError, TypeError) as e:
         with open(file_name, "w") as f:
-            csvwriter = csv.writer(f, delimiter=delimiter, quoting=csv.QUOTE_MINIMAL)
+            csvwriter = csv.writer(f, delimiter=delimiter, quoting=csv.QUOTE_MINIMAL, encoding='utf-8')
             csvwriter.writerow(csv_fields)
             for row in csv_rows:
                 try:
diff --git a/requirements.txt b/requirements.txt
index 94ebe0a..1d43adb 100644
--- a/requirements.txt
+++ b/requirements.txt
@@ -1 +1,2 @@
 praw==4.4.0
+unicodecsv==0.14.1
\ No newline at end of file