From 3d2a5061dbc8b51cca392ffc8f679b21bc343f87 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: =?UTF-8?q?No=C3=A9mi=20V=C3=A1nyi?= <sitbackandwait@gmail.com>
Date: Sat, 7 Aug 2021 16:33:47 +0200
Subject: [PATCH] Fix unicode error when using saved preferences URL

Closes #2917
Closes #2856
---
 searx/preferences.py | 4 ++--
 1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)

diff --git a/searx/preferences.py b/searx/preferences.py
index 1c4aab33..898a63de 100644
--- a/searx/preferences.py
+++ b/searx/preferences.py
@@ -438,8 +438,8 @@ class Preferences:
         """parse (base64) preferences from request (``flask.request.form['preferences']``)"""
         decoded_data = decompress(urlsafe_b64decode(input_data.encode()))
         dict_data = {}
-        for x, y in parse_qs(decoded_data).items():
-            dict_data[x.decode()] = y[0].decode()
+        for x, y in parse_qs(decoded_data.decode()).items():
+            dict_data[x] = y[0]
         self.parse_dict(dict_data)
 
     def parse_dict(self, input_data):