diff --git a/addon.xml b/addon.xml
index 5b91e2b..2ad983b 100644
--- a/addon.xml
+++ b/addon.xml
@@ -1,5 +1,5 @@
 <?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8" standalone="yes"?>
-<addon id="script.module.pyrrent2http" name="pyrrent2http" version="0.9.2" provider-name="inpos">
+<addon id="script.module.pyrrent2http" name="pyrrent2http" version="0.9.3" provider-name="inpos">
     <requires>
         <import addon="xbmc.python" version="2.14.0"/>
         <import	addon="script.module.libtorrent" />
diff --git a/lib/pyrrent2http/util.py b/lib/pyrrent2http/util.py
index e4e318d..e548b16 100644
--- a/lib/pyrrent2http/util.py
+++ b/lib/pyrrent2http/util.py
@@ -49,14 +49,14 @@ def unicode_msg(tmpl, args):
     return msg % tuple(arg_)
 
 def encode_msg(msg):
-    msg = isinstance(msg, unicode) and msg.encode(True and sys.getfilesystemencoding() or 'utf-8') or msg
+    msg = isinstance(msg, unicode) and msg.encode(sys.getfilesystemencoding() != 'ascii' and sys.getfilesystemencoding() or 'utf-8') or msg
     return msg
     
 
 def localize_path(path):
     if not isinstance(path, unicode): path = path.decode(chardet.detect(path)['encoding'])
     if not sys.platform.startswith('win'):
-        path = path.encode(True and sys.getfilesystemencoding() or 'utf-8')
+        path = path.encode(sys.getfilesystemencoding() != 'ascii' and sys.getfilesystemencoding() or 'utf-8')
     return path
 
 def can_bind(host, port):