yt crashes when inputting swedish letters in search field

[zphinx]

äåö ÄÅÖ are swedish letters, yt crashes when they are put into a search in the search field, or it autocompletes to a youtube video containing these.
Traceback (most recent call last):
File "/usr/bin/yt", line 439, in
main()
File "/usr/bin/yt", line 18, in main
ui.run()
File "/usr/bin/yt", line 55, in run
curses.wrapper(self._curses_main)
File "/usr/lib/python2.7/curses/wrapper.py", line 43, in wrapper
return func(stdscr, _args, *_kwds)
File "/usr/bin/yt", line 102, in _curses_main
self._run_pager()
File "/usr/bin/yt", line 250, in _run_pager
s = self._input('search')
File "/usr/bin/yt", line 143, in _input
input_win.addstr(0, 0, ('%s' % (get_query_result(s),)).encode(self._code))
File "/usr/bin/yt", line 430, in get_query_result
result = json.load(urllib2.urlopen('%s?%s' % (url, urllib.urlencode(query))))
File "/usr/lib/python2.7/json/init.py", line 290, in load
**kw)
File "/usr/lib/python2.7/json/init.py", line 338, in loads
return _default_decoder.decode(s)
File "/usr/lib/python2.7/json/decoder.py", line 366, in decode
obj, end = self.raw_decode(s, idx=_w(s, 0).end())
File "/usr/lib/python2.7/json/decoder.py", line 382, in raw_decode
obj, end = self.scan_once(s, idx)
UnicodeDecodeError: 'utf8' codec can't decode byte 0xc3 in position 0: unexpected end of data

[zphinx]

Sorry, this was supposed to go into yt, not youtube-dl