diff -r b78de8029606 Lib/tarfile.py
--- a/Lib/tarfile.py	Mon Dec 16 23:10:50 2013 -0700
+++ b/Lib/tarfile.py	Tue Dec 17 16:12:28 2013 +0800
@@ -1843,7 +1843,12 @@
                 print("%d-%02d-%02d %02d:%02d:%02d" \
                       % time.localtime(tarinfo.mtime)[:6], end=' ')
 
-            print(tarinfo.name + ("/" if tarinfo.isdir() else ""), end=' ')
+            try:
+                print(tarinfo.name + ("/" if tarinfo.isdir() else ""), end=' ')
+            except UnicodeEncodeError:
+                print(ascii(tarinfo.name).strip("'") +
+                      ("/" if tarinfo.isdir() else ""),
+                      end=' ')
 
             if verbose:
                 if tarinfo.issym():
diff -r b78de8029606 Lib/test/test_tarfile.py
--- a/Lib/test/test_tarfile.py	Mon Dec 16 23:10:50 2013 -0700
+++ b/Lib/test/test_tarfile.py	Tue Dec 17 16:12:28 2013 +0800
@@ -1786,6 +1786,11 @@
             out = self.tarfilecmd(opt, tmpname)
             self.assertEqual(out, expected)
 
+    def test_list_print_lone_surrogate(self):
+        # Just make sure it does not throw UnicodeEncodeError exception
+        with tarfile.open(support.findfile('testtar.tar'), 'r') as tf:
+            tf.list(verbose=False)
+
     def test_list_command_verbose(self):
         self.make_simple_tarfile(tmpname)
         with support.captured_stdout() as t: