From 0ecf3d08be9206b1067fa37301fb187256dc17ab Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: James Taylor <user234683@users.noreply.github.com>
Date: Mon, 25 Mar 2019 13:15:54 -0700
Subject: Fix error with channel searches with non-ascii characters

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

diff --git a/youtube/proto.py b/youtube/proto.py
index 004375a..d966455 100644
--- a/youtube/proto.py
+++ b/youtube/proto.py
@@ -60,7 +60,7 @@ def unpadded_b64encode(data):
 
 def as_bytes(value):
     if isinstance(value, str):
-        return value.encode('ascii')
+        return value.encode('utf-8')
     return value
 
 
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