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Unhandled error in plugin transmission

See original GitHub issue

Expected behaviour:

Flexget adds torrent to transmission and starts it.

Actual behaviour:

Torrent is added, but is not started.

Steps to reproduce:

Run flexget.

Config:

https://pastebin.com/Caj8pVTM

Log:

2018-01-05 13:05 INFO     download      nyaa            Downloading: Yuru Camp - 01 (1280x720 HEVC2 AAC).mkv
2018-01-05 13:05 INFO     download      nyaa            Downloading: Ramen Daisuki Koizumi-san - 01 (1280x720 HEVC2 AAC).mkv
2018-01-05 13:05 INFO     transmission  nyaa            "Yuru Camp - 01 (1280x720 HEVC2 AAC).mkv" torrent added to transmission
2018-01-05 13:05 CRITICAL task          nyaa            BUG: Unhandled error in plugin transmission: 'ascii' codec can't decode byte 0xe2 in position 35: ordinal not in range(128)
2018-01-05 13:05 CRITICAL manager       nyaa            An unexpected crash has occurred. Writing crash report to /home/box/.config/flexget/crash_report.2018.01.05.130509236016.log. Please verify you are running the latest version of flexget by using "flexget -V" from CLI or by using version_checker plugin at http://flexget.com/wiki/Plugins/version_checker. You are currently using version 2.11.20
2018-01-05 13:05 WARNING  task          nyaa            Aborting task (plugin: transmission)

2018-01-05 13:05 DEBUG    manager                       Figuring out config load paths
2018-01-05 13:05 DEBUG    manager                       Found config: /home/box/.config/flexget/config.yml
2018-01-05 13:05 DEBUG    manager                       Config file /home/box/.config/flexget/config.yml selected
2018-01-05 13:05 INFO     download      nyaa            Downloading: Yuru Camp - 01 (1280x720 HEVC2 AAC).mkv
2018-01-05 13:05 INFO     download      nyaa            Downloading: Ramen Daisuki Koizumi-san - 01 (1280x720 HEVC2 AAC).mkv
2018-01-05 13:05 INFO     transmission  nyaa            "Yuru Camp - 01 (1280x720 HEVC2 AAC).mkv" torrent added to transmission
2018-01-05 13:05 CRITICAL task          nyaa            BUG: Unhandled error in plugin transmission: 'ascii' codec can't decode byte 0xe2 in position 35: ordinal not in range(128)
Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "/usr/local/lib/python2.7/dist-packages/flexget/task.py", line 486, in __run_plugin
    return method(*args, **kwargs)
  File "/usr/local/lib/python2.7/dist-packages/flexget/event.py", line 23, in __call__
    return self.func(*args, **kwargs)
  File "/usr/local/lib/python2.7/dist-packages/flexget/plugins/clients/transmission.py", line 303, in on_task_output
    self.add_to_transmission(self.client, task, config)
  File "/usr/local/lib/python2.7/dist-packages/flexget/plugins/clients/transmission.py", line 528, in add_to_transmission
    file_path = os.path.dirname(os.path.join(download_dir, fl[r.id][main_id]['name']))
  File "/usr/lib/python2.7/posixpath.py", line 73, in join
    path += '/' + b
UnicodeDecodeError: 'ascii' codec can't decode byte 0xe2 in position 35: ordinal not in range(128)