Broken non-English characters in notifications

[mikromcz]

Context

Please provide any relevant information about your setup

• Add-on Version: 6.8.15-matrix.1
• Kodi Version: 19.1
• Kodi GUI Language: Czech
• Operating System: Ubuntu 20.10
• Operating System Language: Czech

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Expected Behavior

Please describe the behavior you are expecting.

When I add/remove video to/from WL, notification in the top right corner have broken text. It just screw up Czech characters.

I have checked all related files in addon and all seems to be correct and in utf8.

I don't have this issue with other addons.

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Current Behavior

What is the current behavior?

See pictures

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Steps to Reproduce

Please provide detailed steps for reproducing the issue.

1. Add video to watch later
2. Remove video from watch later
3. Probably anything else with notification

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Log

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Additional Information

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Definitely not critical issue, but it might be the same in other languages too.

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[nixxo]

Italian language has the same problem has OP.

it's a problem added by https://github.com/anxdpanic/plugin.video.youtube/commit/fe1825d6c9356852dcbf1bff6a09ef39361bcd07

if I comment out those two lines of code the notification msg gets shown properly

[mikromcz]

Italian language has the same problem has OP.

it's a problem added by fe1825d

if I comment out those two lines of code the notification msg gets shown properly

I can confirm! after commenting

#if PY3 and isinstance(message, str):
#    message = message.encode('utf-8')

in

xbmc_context_ui.py

problem went away and notifications are correct