diff --git a/aider/mdstream.py b/aider/mdstream.py
index 9d71a76f0..947777651 100755
--- a/aider/mdstream.py
+++ b/aider/mdstream.py
@@ -95,12 +95,7 @@ class MarkdownStream:
             show = lines[num_printed:num_lines]
             show = "".join(show)
             show = Text.from_ansi(show)
-            try:
-                self.live.console.print(show)
-            except UnicodeEncodeError as err:
-                print("unicode error", err)
-                print("show string", repr(show.encode("utf-8")))
-                raise err
+            self.live.console.print(show)
 
             self.printed = lines[:num_lines]
 
diff --git a/aider/tests/test_wholefile.py b/aider/tests/test_wholefile.py
index 3ebec1571..10e996dec 100644
--- a/aider/tests/test_wholefile.py
+++ b/aider/tests/test_wholefile.py
@@ -288,7 +288,9 @@ after b
         files = [file1]
 
         # Initialize the Coder object with the mocked IO and mocked repo
-        coder = Coder.create(self.GPT35, "whole", io=InputOutput(), fnames=files, stream=False)
+        coder = Coder.create(
+            self.GPT35, "whole", io=InputOutput(), fnames=files, stream=False, pretty=False
+        )
 
         # no trailing newline so the response content below doesn't add ANOTHER newline
         new_content = "new\ntwo\nthree"
@@ -307,6 +309,7 @@ Do this:
             return []
 
         coder.send = MagicMock(side_effect=mock_send)
+        coder.live_incremental_response = lambda x: x
 
         # Call the run method with a message
         coder.run(with_message="hi")