diff --git a/translate b/translate
index 116c483..9ab5eac 100755
--- a/translate
+++ b/translate
@@ -1,8 +1,11 @@
 #!/usr/bin/env python
 # -*- coding: utf-8 -*-
 import argparse
+import sys
 from googletrans import translator
 
+PY3 = sys.version_info > (3, 1)
+
 def main():
     parser = argparse.ArgumentParser(
         description='Python Google Translator as a command-line tool')
@@ -25,15 +28,16 @@ def main():
         return
 
     result = translator.translate(args.text, dest=args.dest, src=args.src)
+    text = result.text if PY3 else result.text.encode('utf-8', 'ignore')
+    pronunciation = result.pronunciation if PY3 else result.pronunciation.encode('utf-8', 'ignore')
     result = """
 [{src}] {original}
     ->
 [{dest}] {text}
 [pron.] {pronunciation}
     """.strip().format(src=result.src, dest=result.dest, original=result.origin, 
-                       text=result.text.encode('utf-8', 'ignore'),
-                       pronunciation=result.pronunciation.encode('utf-8', 
-                                                                 'ignore'))
+                       text=text,
+                       pronunciation=pronunciation)
     print(result)
 
 if __name__ == '__main__':