From 33ddf9f62ba984b56dd80378cf0041d4e27cc80d Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Bob Mottram <bob@freedombone.net>
Date: Sat, 10 Oct 2020 09:45:47 +0100
Subject: [PATCH] Decode

---
 newsdaemon.py | 4 ++--
 1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)

diff --git a/newsdaemon.py b/newsdaemon.py
index 586956de..4452dc5f 100644
--- a/newsdaemon.py
+++ b/newsdaemon.py
@@ -90,8 +90,8 @@ def convertRSStoActivityPub(baseDir: str, httpPrefix: str,
             newswire[originalDateStr][3] = filename
             continue
 
-        rssTitle = urllib.parse.unquote_plus(item[0]).encode('utf-8')
-        url = urllib.parse.unquote_plus(item[1]).encode('utf-8')
+        rssTitle = urllib.parse.unquote_plus(item[0]).decode()
+        url = urllib.parse.unquote_plus(item[1]).decode()
         rssDescription = ''
 
         # get the rss description if it exists