---
 pymsn/msnp/notification.py |    2 +-
 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)

Index: b/pymsn/msnp/notification.py
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--- a/pymsn/msnp/notification.py
+++ b/pymsn/msnp/notification.py
@@ -144,7 +144,7 @@ class NotificationProtocol(BaseProtocol,
             @param friendly_name: the new friendly name
             @type friendly_name: string"""
         self._send_command('PRP',
-                ('MFN', urllib.quote(display_name)))
+                ('MFN', urllib.quote(display_name.encode("utf-8"))))
 
     @throttled(2000, LastElementQueue())
     def set_personal_message(self, personal_message='', current_media=None):