From 11cf78de361caeeb096b8ec829d81d9e8b244269 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: marcelveldt <m.vanderveldt@outlook.com>
Date: Mon, 18 Jan 2016 20:56:10 +0100
Subject: [PATCH] fix unicode error in urlencode

---
 resources/lib/artwork.py | 5 +++--
 1 file changed, 3 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)

diff --git a/resources/lib/artwork.py b/resources/lib/artwork.py
index 6d42a45f..25860bb4 100644
--- a/resources/lib/artwork.py
+++ b/resources/lib/artwork.py
@@ -55,10 +55,11 @@ class Artwork():
         return text
 
     def single_urlencode(self, text):
-        text = urllib.urlencode({'blahblahblah':text})
+        
+        text = urllib.urlencode({'blahblahblah':text.encode("utf-8")}) #urlencode needs a utf- string
         text = text[13:]
 
-        return text
+        return text.decode("utf-8") #return the result again as unicode
 
     def setKodiWebServerDetails(self):
         # Get the Kodi webserver details - used to set the texture cache