Some more encoding

couchpotato/core/helpers/encoding.py

@@ -20,13 +20,7 @@ def simplifyString(original):
 
 def toUnicode(original, *args):
     try:
-        if type(original) == str:
+        if type(original) is unicode:
-            try:
-                from couchpotato.environment import Env
-                return original.decode(Env.get('encoding'))
-            except UnicodeDecodeError:
-                raise
-        elif type(original) is unicode:
             return original
         else:
             return unicode(original, *args)
@@ -35,6 +29,15 @@ def toUnicode(original, *args):
         ascii_text = str(original).encode('string_escape')
         return unicode(ascii_text)
 
+def ek(original, *args):
+    if type(original) in [str, unicode]:
+        try:
+            from couchpotato.environment import Env
+            return original.decode(Env.get('encoding'))
+        except UnicodeDecodeError:
+            return toUnicode(original, *args)
+
+    return original
 
 def isInt(value):
     try:

couchpotato/core/plugins/scanner/main.py

@@ -1,6 +1,6 @@
 from couchpotato import get_session
 from couchpotato.core.event import fireEvent, addEvent
-from couchpotato.core.helpers.encoding import toUnicode, simplifyString
+from couchpotato.core.helpers.encoding import toUnicode, simplifyString, ek
 from couchpotato.core.helpers.variable import getExt, getImdb, tryInt
 from couchpotato.core.logger import CPLog
 from couchpotato.core.plugins.base import Plugin
@@ -145,7 +145,7 @@ class Scanner(Plugin):
         # Scan all files of the folder if no files are set
         if len(files) == 0:
             files = []
-            for root, dirs, walk_files in os.walk(folder):
+            for root, dirs, walk_files in os.walk(ek(folder)):
                 for filename in walk_files:
                     files.append(os.path.join(root, filename))