ASCII Art causes encoding issues

Not sure if this is a limitation of python on linux, my terminal, etc.

Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "japonicus.py", line 54, in <module>
    print(TITLE)
UnicodeEncodeError: 'ascii' codec can't encode characters in position 12-14: ordinal not in range(128)

[greenbigfrog]

$ python --version
Python 3.6.3

$ locale
LANG=en_US.UTF-8
LC_CTYPE=C
LC_NUMERIC="en_US.UTF-8"
LC_TIME="en_US.UTF-8"
LC_COLLATE="en_US.UTF-8"
LC_MONETARY="en_US.UTF-8"
LC_MESSAGES="en_US.UTF-8"
LC_PAPER="en_US.UTF-8"
LC_NAME="en_US.UTF-8"
LC_ADDRESS="en_US.UTF-8"
LC_TELEPHONE="en_US.UTF-8"
LC_MEASUREMENT="en_US.UTF-8"
LC_IDENTIFICATION="en_US.UTF-8"
LC_ALL=

[Gab0]

really? I thought nobody cared for those messages lool