Audit scans scheduled from Satellite are failing with error "'ascii' codec can't encode character u'\u2013' in position 274: ordinal not in range(128)"

Issue

• Audit scans are failing with below tracebacks,

The log shows the following errors:
Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "/usr/sbin/rhn_check", line 382, in <module>
    cli.run()
  File "/usr/share/rhn/up2date_client/rhncli.py", line 84, in run
    sys.exit(self.main() or 0)
  File "/usr/sbin/rhn_check", line 75, in main
    self.__run_remote_actions()
  File "/usr/sbin/rhn_check", line 179, in __run_remote_actions
    self.handle_action(action)
  File "/usr/sbin/rhn_check", line 234, in handle_action
    parser.feed(data)
  File "/usr/lib64/python2.6/xmlrpclib.py", line 601, in feed
    self._parser.Parse(data, 0)
<type 'exceptions.UnicodeEncodeError'>: 'ascii' codec can't encode character u'\u2013' in position 274: ordinal not in range(128)