From aea39709e64fc4306ee905b4cfda8533ae136afa Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Kenneth Reitz <me@kennethreitz.org>
Date: Tue, 27 Feb 2018 12:56:49 -0500
Subject: [PATCH] bug fix

Signed-off-by: Kenneth Reitz <me@kennethreitz.org>
---
 requests_html.py | 2 +-
 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/requests_html.py b/requests_html.py
index 1f2c8d4..81a1e5c 100644
--- a/requests_html.py
+++ b/requests_html.py
@@ -254,7 +254,7 @@ class HTML(BaseParser):
                 except TimeoutError:
                     pass
 
-        html = HTML(url=self.url, html=content, default_encoding=DEFAULT_ENCODING)
+        html = HTML(url=self.url, html=content.encode(DEFAULT_ENCODING), default_encoding=DEFAULT_ENCODING)
         self.__dict__.update(html.__dict__)