yt plugin - fix strings encoding

plugins/yt.py

@@ -27,11 +27,12 @@ class yt(object):
             request = " ".join(args).replace(" ","+").replace("http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=","")
             if request.find("&")!=-1: request = request.split("&")[0]
             sock = urllib.request.urlopen("http://gdata.youtube.com/feeds/api/videos/%s?v=2&alt=json"%request)
-            data = sock.read()
+            data = sock.read().decode("utf-8")
             sock.close()
             try:
                 e = json.loads(data)["entry"]
             except:
+                print(data)
                 self.server.doMessage(channel, user+": No data found.")
                 return
             e = json.loads(data)["entry"]
@@ -39,13 +40,13 @@ class yt(object):
             m = int(e["media$group"]["yt$duration"]["seconds"])/60 - h * 60
             s = int(e["media$group"]["yt$duration"]["seconds"]) - h * 3600 - m * 60
             self.server.doMessage(channel, user+": "+"'{0}' by {1} ({2}:{3}:{4}) - Rating {5} - Favorite {6}/{7} - Date {8} - Likes {9}+ {10}- /{11}".format(
-            e["title"]["$t"].encode('utf-8'),
-            e["author"][0]["name"]["$t"].encode('utf-8'),
+            e["title"]["$t"],
+            e["author"][0]["name"]["$t"],
             h,m,s,
             e['gd$rating']['average'],
             e["yt$statistics"]["favoriteCount"],
             e["yt$statistics"]["viewCount"],
-            e["published"]["$t"].encode('utf-8').split('.')[0].split("T")[0],
+            e["published"]["$t"].split('.')[0].split("T")[0],
             #e["link"][0]["href"].encode('utf-8').replace("&feature=youtube_gdata",""),
             e["yt$rating"]["numLikes"],
             e["yt$rating"]["numDislikes"],