UnicodeDecodeError: 'ascii' codec can't decode byte 0x8a in position 1125001: ordinal not in range(128)

[giveortake]

Hi there,

Thank you for creating this script, it is exactly what I need. I have run into an issue after install regarding encoding. Here are the details:

Fri Apr 17 2020 10:03:38 | Post-process-script GetScripts/nzbbacktoQ.py for mynzbfile failed (terminated with unknown status)

INFO | Fri Apr 17 2020 10:03:38 | nzbbacktoQ: UnicodeDecodeError: 'ascii' codec can't decode byte 0x8a in position 1125001: ordinal not in range(128)
INFO | Fri Apr 17 2020 10:03:38 | nzbbacktoQ: nzbid = server.append(filename, base64.b64encode(nzb.encode('utf8')).decode('ascii'), category, 0, True, False, '', 0, 'ALL', [('*unpack:password', nzbpassword)])
INFO | Fri Apr 17 2020 10:03:38 | nzbbacktoQ: File "/volume1/@appstore/nzbget/share/nzbget/scripts/GetScripts/nzbbacktoQ.py", line 62, in addLocalFileToNZBGet
INFO | Fri Apr 17 2020 10:03:38 | nzbbacktoQ: nzbid = addLocalFileToNZBGet(nzbname + '.nzb', nzbpath, nzbcategory, nzbpassword)
INFO | Fri Apr 17 2020 10:03:38 | nzbbacktoQ: File "/volume1/@appstore/nzbget/share/nzbget/scripts/GetScripts/nzbbacktoQ.py", line 101, in
INFO | Fri Apr 17 2020 10:03:38 | nzbbacktoQ: Traceback (most recent call last):
INFO | Fri Apr 17 2020 10:03:38 | nzbbacktoQ: Found NZB file "mynzbfile"
INFO | Fri Apr 17 2020 10:03:38 | Executing post-process-script GetScripts/nzbbacktoQ.py for mynzbfile

let me know if you need more details, I can also share the nzb with you. Best regards.

[giveortake]

fixed by adding

reload(sys)
sys.setdefaultencoding('latin1')

at line 31 (under import sys)