diff --git a/nzbtomedia/__init__.py b/nzbtomedia/__init__.py
index e5392bb3..79c7c6b3 100644
--- a/nzbtomedia/__init__.py
+++ b/nzbtomedia/__init__.py
@@ -107,7 +107,7 @@ def initialize():
         TRANSMISSIONPWD, TRANSMISSIONUSR, COMPRESSEDCONTAINER, MEDIACONTAINER, METACONTAINER, MINSAMPLESIZE, SAMPLEIDS, \
         SECTIONS, SUBSECTIONS, USER_SCRIPT_CATEGORIES, __INITIALIZED__, AUTO_UPDATE, APP_FILENAME, USER_DELAY, USER_SCRIPT_RUNONCE,\
         APP_NAME,USER_SCRIPT_MEDIAEXTENSIONS, USER_SCRIPT, USER_SCRIPT_PARAM, USER_SCRIPT_SUCCESSCODES, USER_SCRIPT_CLEAN,\
-        TRANSCODE, GIT_PATH, GIT_USER, GIT_BRANCH, GIT_REPO
+        TRANSCODE, GIT_PATH, GIT_USER, GIT_BRANCH, GIT_REPO, SYS_ENCODING
 
 
     if __INITIALIZED__:
@@ -117,7 +117,6 @@ def initialize():
     sys.path.insert(0, os.path.abspath(os.path.join(PROGRAM_DIR, 'lib')))
 
     # init preliminaries
-    SYS_ENCODING = None
     SYS_ARGV = sys.argv[1:]
     APP_FILENAME = sys.argv[0]
     APP_NAME = os.path.basename(APP_FILENAME)
diff --git a/nzbtomedia/nzbToMediaAutoFork.py b/nzbtomedia/nzbToMediaAutoFork.py
index d42889dd..479d2595 100644
--- a/nzbtomedia/nzbToMediaAutoFork.py
+++ b/nzbtomedia/nzbToMediaAutoFork.py
@@ -48,7 +48,7 @@ def autoFork(inputCategory):
     detected = False
     if fork == "auto":
         logger.info("Attempting to auto-detect " + section + " fork")
-        for fork in sorted(nzbtomedia.FORKS.iteritems()):
+        for fork in sorted(nzbtomedia.FORKS.iteritems(), reverse=False):
             url = protocol + host + ":" + port + web_root + "/home/postprocess/processEpisode?" + urllib.urlencode(fork[1])
 
             # attempting to auto-detect fork