diff --git a/glanceclient/common/http.py b/glanceclient/common/http.py
index 2bc6257..015328d 100644
--- a/glanceclient/common/http.py
+++ b/glanceclient/common/http.py
@@ -150,7 +150,7 @@ class HTTPClient(object):
             curl.append('-d \'%s\'' % kwargs['body'])
 
         curl.append('%s%s' % (self.endpoint, url))
-        LOG.debug(strutils.safe_encode(' '.join(curl)))
+        LOG.debug(strutils.safe_encode(' '.join(curl), errors='ignore'))
 
     @staticmethod
     def log_http_response(resp, body=None):
diff --git a/tests/test_http.py b/tests/test_http.py
index 9310812..8dabdba 100644
--- a/tests/test_http.py
+++ b/tests/test_http.py
@@ -337,6 +337,16 @@ class TestClient(testtools.TestCase):
                     'timeout': 600.0}
         self.assertEqual(expected, actual)
 
+    def test_log_curl_request_with_non_ascii_char(self):
+        try:
+            headers = {'header1': 'value1\xa5\xa6'}
+            http_client_object = http.HTTPClient(self.endpoint)
+            http_client_object.log_curl_request('GET',
+                                                'http://www.example.com/\xa5',
+                                                {'headers': headers})
+        except UnicodeDecodeError as e:
+            self.fail("Unexpected UnicodeDecodeError exception '%s'" % e)
+
 
 class TestHostResolutionError(testtools.TestCase):