diff --git a/dosage b/dosage
index b6e616306..6743a7ece 100755
--- a/dosage
+++ b/dosage
@@ -288,10 +288,8 @@ def doList(columnList=True, verbose=False):
     """List available comics."""
     page = hasattr(sys.stdout, "isatty") and sys.stdout.isatty()
     if page:
-        fd = StringIO()
-    else:
-        fd = sys.stdout
-    out.setStream(fd)
+        fd = StringIO(u'')
+        out.setStream(fd)
     out.info(u'Available comic scrapers:')
     out.info(u'Comics tagged with [%s] require age confirmation with the --adult option.' % TAG_ADULT)
     out.info(u'Non-english comics are tagged with [%s].' % TAG_LANG)
diff --git a/dosagelib/ansicolor.py b/dosagelib/ansicolor.py
index 4d43bced2..4fc634a10 100644
--- a/dosagelib/ansicolor.py
+++ b/dosagelib/ansicolor.py
@@ -1,5 +1,5 @@
 # -*- coding: iso-8859-1 -*-
-# Copyright (C) 2000-2012 Bastian Kleineidam
+# Copyright (C) 2000-2013 Bastian Kleineidam
 """
 ANSI Color definitions and functions. For Windows systems, the colorama module
 uses ctypes and Windows DLLs to generate colored output.
diff --git a/dosagelib/output.py b/dosagelib/output.py
index 43ff996f2..2a67d419a 100644
--- a/dosagelib/output.py
+++ b/dosagelib/output.py
@@ -26,11 +26,11 @@ class Output(object):
                 self.encoding = 'utf-8'
         else:
             self.encoding = encoding
+        stream = codecs.getwriter(self.encoding)(stream)
         self.setStream(stream)
 
     def setStream(self, stream):
         """Initialize context and indentation."""
-        stream = codecs.getwriter(self.encoding)(stream)
         self.stream = Colorizer(stream)
 
     def info(self, s, level=0):