From 876e940283825ea348162637852fb3a4aff16ab2 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: =?UTF-8?q?Odd=20Str=C3=A5b=C3=B8?= <oddstr13@openshell.no>
Date: Tue, 11 Jun 2024 05:46:17 +0000
Subject: [PATCH] Fix normalize_string

---
 jellyfin_kodi/helper/utils.py | 2 +-
 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/jellyfin_kodi/helper/utils.py b/jellyfin_kodi/helper/utils.py
index c7c31567..3e2b58cd 100644
--- a/jellyfin_kodi/helper/utils.py
+++ b/jellyfin_kodi/helper/utils.py
@@ -425,7 +425,7 @@ def normalize_string(text):
     text = text.strip()
 
     text = text.rstrip(".")
-    text = unicodedata.normalize("NFKD", str(text, "utf-8")).encode("ascii", "ignore")
+    text = unicodedata.normalize("NFKD", text).encode("ascii", "ignore")
 
     return text