PhantomJS strange behaviour regarding unicode

Question

I'm using phantomJS with selenium for automation Works flawless on my local machine (Ubuntu 12.04) However .. on server (also ubuntu 12.04 server edition) phantomjs seems to not handle unicode chars & through an exception on accessing elements containing them

Clarification:

Selecting an element on page works fine;

Accessing text / html attributes that would return sets of unicode chars. through the exception

The rest of the Server system or other python modules for example, (Python interpreter) don't seem to have that problem and they can read and manipulate unicode chars well.

phantomjs -v: 1.9.7

Any idea ?!

Thanks in Advance