diff --git a/src/callbacks.py b/src/callbacks.py
index c647a8ac6..48a42cae6 100644
--- a/src/callbacks.py
+++ b/src/callbacks.py
@@ -294,9 +294,14 @@ class Tokenizer(object):
             token = token[1:-1]
             # FIXME: No need to tell you this is a hack.
             # It has to handle both IRC commands and serialized configuration.
+            #
+            # Whoever you are, if you make a single modification to this
+            # code, TEST the code with Python 2 & 3, both with the unit
+            # tests and on IRC with this: @echo "好"
             if sys.version_info[0] < 3:
                 try:
                     token = token.encode('utf8').decode('string_escape')
+                    token = token.decode('utf8')
                 except:
                     token = token.decode('string_escape')
             else:
diff --git a/test/test_callbacks.py b/test/test_callbacks.py
index 21626edda..76aa97424 100644
--- a/test/test_callbacks.py
+++ b/test/test_callbacks.py
@@ -73,10 +73,8 @@ class TokenizerTestCase(SupyTestCase):
                          ['foo', 'bar baz', 'quux'])
 
     def testUnicode(self):
-        print repr((tokenize(u'好'), ['好']))
-        print repr((tokenize(u'"好"'), ['好']))
-        self.assertEqual(tokenize(u'好'), ['好'])
-        self.assertEqual(tokenize(u'"好"'), ['好'])
+        self.assertEqual(tokenize(u'好'), [u'好'])
+        self.assertEqual(tokenize(u'"好"'), [u'好'])
 
     def testNesting(self):
         self.assertEqual(tokenize('[]'), [[]])