From 229d67c086ce0e707eabd7bce41cdc21bc544f31 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Ruud <ruud@crashdummy.nl>
Date: Mon, 22 Dec 2014 22:01:47 +0100
Subject: [PATCH] Don't toUnicode loop

---
 couchpotato/core/helpers/encoding.py | 3 +--
 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 2 deletions(-)

diff --git a/couchpotato/core/helpers/encoding.py b/couchpotato/core/helpers/encoding.py
index c65fe876..b0fe05cf 100644
--- a/couchpotato/core/helpers/encoding.py
+++ b/couchpotato/core/helpers/encoding.py
@@ -44,8 +44,7 @@ def toUnicode(original, *args):
                     raise
     except:
         log.error('Unable to decode value "%s..." : %s ', (repr(original)[:20], traceback.format_exc()))
-        ascii_text = str(original).encode('string_escape')
-        return toUnicode(ascii_text)
+        return toSafeString(original)
 
 
 def ss(original, *args):