diff --git a/misc.sh b/misc.sh
index fc852ce..811d144 100644
--- a/misc.sh
+++ b/misc.sh
@@ -5,5 +5,5 @@ urlencode() {
 }
 
 urldecode() {
-	python -c "import urllib, sys; print urllib.unquote_plus(sys.argv[1]).decode('utf8')"  "$1"
+	python -c "import urllib, sys; print urllib.unquote_plus(sys.argv[1])"  "$1"
 }