diff --git a/IPython/frontend/wx/console_widget.py b/IPython/frontend/wx/console_widget.py
index 0bf21b6..da91206 100644
--- a/IPython/frontend/wx/console_widget.py
+++ b/IPython/frontend/wx/console_widget.py
@@ -212,12 +212,20 @@ class ConsoleWidget(editwindow.EditWindow):
         segment = segments.pop(0)
         self.GotoPos(self.GetLength())
         self.StartStyling(self.GetLength(), 0xFF)
-        self.AppendText(segment)
+        try:
+            self.AppendText(segment)
+        except UnicodeDecodeError:
+            # XXX: Do I really want to skip the exception?
+            pass
         
         if segments:
             for ansi_tag, text in zip(segments[::2], segments[1::2]):
                 self.StartStyling(self.GetLength(), 0xFF)
-                self.AppendText(text)
+                try:
+                    self.AppendText(text)
+                except UnicodeDecodeError:
+                    # XXX: Do I really want to skip the exception?
+                    pass
 
                 if ansi_tag not in self.ANSI_STYLES:
                     style = 0
diff --git a/IPython/frontend/wx/wx_frontend.py b/IPython/frontend/wx/wx_frontend.py
index dc8056b..1ba94f1 100644
--- a/IPython/frontend/wx/wx_frontend.py
+++ b/IPython/frontend/wx/wx_frontend.py
@@ -276,6 +276,7 @@ class WxController(PrefilterFrontEnd, ConsoleWidget):
         """ Capture the character events, let the parent
             widget handle them, and put our logic afterward.
         """
+        # FIXME: This method needs to be broken down in smaller ones.
         current_line_number = self.GetCurrentLine()
         if event.KeyCode in (ord('c'), ord('C')) and event.ControlDown():
             # Capture Control-C
diff --git a/IPython/kernel/core/sync_traceback_trap.py b/IPython/kernel/core/sync_traceback_trap.py
index 4c0c5b7..439d2b8 100644
--- a/IPython/kernel/core/sync_traceback_trap.py
+++ b/IPython/kernel/core/sync_traceback_trap.py
@@ -34,7 +34,7 @@ class SyncTracebackTrap(TracebackTrap):
         """
         self.args = args
         
-        print self.sync_formatters(*self.args)
+        print self.sync_formatter(*self.args)