From 9cff20ca160d2b3e9efcab999d8f9c1b8ed80e96 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Devin Buhl <devin.kray@gmail.com>
Date: Sun, 1 Nov 2015 11:03:36 -0500
Subject: [PATCH] set text format on encode

---
 plexpy/notifiers.py | 2 +-
 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/plexpy/notifiers.py b/plexpy/notifiers.py
index 0ef56425..1efefb29 100644
--- a/plexpy/notifiers.py
+++ b/plexpy/notifiers.py
@@ -1455,7 +1455,7 @@ class TELEGRAM(object):
         http_handler = HTTPSConnection("api.telegram.org")
 
         data = {'chat_id': self.chat_id,
-                'text': event + ': ' + message.encode("utf-8")}
+                'text': event.encode('utf-8') + ': ' + message.encode("utf-8")}
 
         http_handler.request("POST",
                                 "/bot%s/%s" % (self.bot_token, "sendMessage"),