From 02175a7986c4223a0ed27a872c1ca16926913e05 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: =?UTF-8?q?Sergey=20M=E2=80=A4?= <dstftw@gmail.com>
Date: Mon, 15 Jun 2015 21:01:26 +0600
Subject: [PATCH] [youtube:search] Fix search query (Closes #5988)

---
 youtube_dl/extractor/youtube.py | 2 +-
 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/youtube_dl/extractor/youtube.py b/youtube_dl/extractor/youtube.py
index 3448bec4f..9e2671192 100644
--- a/youtube_dl/extractor/youtube.py
+++ b/youtube_dl/extractor/youtube.py
@@ -1504,7 +1504,7 @@ def _get_n_results(self, query, n):
 
         for pagenum in itertools.count(1):
             url_query = {
-                'search_query': query,
+                'search_query': query.encode('utf-8'),
                 'page': pagenum,
                 'spf': 'navigate',
             }