From 57d4ddcd578b406ec445b9ce158d23ce8860d975 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: =?UTF-8?q?Philipp=20H=C3=B6rist?= <philipp@hoerist.com>
Date: Wed, 21 Mar 2018 19:17:15 +0100
Subject: [PATCH] Commandline args are always type str in Python3

Fixes #8970
---
 gajim/gajim_remote.py | 3 +--
 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 2 deletions(-)

diff --git a/gajim/gajim_remote.py b/gajim/gajim_remote.py
index bfde235e5..9079d422f 100644
--- a/gajim/gajim_remote.py
+++ b/gajim/gajim_remote.py
@@ -480,8 +480,7 @@ class GajimRemote:
         """
         Calls self.method with arguments from sys.argv[2:]
         """
-        args = [i.decode(PREFERRED_ENCODING) for i in self.arguments]
-        args = [dbus.String(i) for i in args]
+        args = [dbus.String(i) for i in self.arguments]
         try:
             res = self.method(*args)
             return res