Error playing video with special characters.

[luhanmcs]

"ascii' codec can't encode characters in position 46-47: ordinal not in range"
Error playing video with special characters.
Error happens on windows and android.
Kodi 18.9 works fine.
https://paste.kodi.tv/oyusanuqir

[RedSquirrel87]

I get the same error, for example with every "pokémon" movie (because of the "é" char). I didn't think it was such a long-date bug (I see it was reported in August), any news about it or how to fix this?

[RedSquirrel87]

Ok, I just analyzed the source code, to solve this issue just replace the following string at "resources/lib/addon.py"
response_params = dict(urllib.parse.parse_qsl(response_text))
with
response_params = dict(urllib.parse.parse_qsl(response_text.decode('ASCII')))
and then it will work

[andreus1610]

Yes It happened to me too! This happens when you try to open a file that contains an accent and in the configurations you have set a stream format other than Original.

Your change on the addon.py file appears to work.

Thanks!

Ok, I just analyzed the source code, to solve this issue just replace the following string at "resources/lib/addon.py" response_params = dict(urllib.parse.parse_qsl(response_text)) with response_params = dict(urllib.parse.parse_qsl(response_text.decode('ASCII'))) and then it will work

[DVergil]

hello how can i do this?

[DVergil]

I use kodi on Android TV

[hungdry]

Ok, I just analyzed the source code, to solve this issue just replace the following string at "resources/lib/addon.py" response_params = dict(urllib.parse.parse_qsl(response_text)) with response_params = dict(urllib.parse.parse_qsl(response_text.decode('ASCII'))) and then it will work

It works for me. Thanks

[hungdry]

I use kodi on Android TV

Download code as zip file
Edit the line that RedSquirrel87 mentioned and zip again
Send that modified zip file to your box/android TV
Kodi -> setting -> add-on -> install from zip file