From 9164dafe6932d032813d33eb963941c7cfbf1606 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Calum Lind <calumlind+deluge@gmail.com>
Date: Thu, 29 Jun 2017 14:19:50 +0100
Subject: [PATCH] [#3083] Fix missing common.utf8_encoded for backward
 compatibility

---
 deluge/common.py | 6 ++++++
 1 file changed, 6 insertions(+)

diff --git a/deluge/common.py b/deluge/common.py
index e6b633d82..e9afba688 100644
--- a/deluge/common.py
+++ b/deluge/common.py
@@ -28,6 +28,7 @@ import time
 import chardet
 import pkg_resources
 
+from deluge.decorators import deprecated
 from deluge.error import InvalidPathError
 
 try:
@@ -921,6 +922,11 @@ def decode_bytes(byte_str, encoding='utf8'):
     return ''
 
 
+@deprecated
+def utf8_encoded(s, encoding='utf8'):
+    decode_bytes(s, encoding).encode('utf8')
+
+
 def utf8_encode_structure(data):
     """Recursively convert all unicode keys and values in a data structure to utf8.