[lynda] Fix login request (Closes #6088)

diff --git a/youtube_dl/extractor/lynda.py b/youtube_dl/extractor/lynda.py
index cfd3b14f4bfd755a7600701e86900ece12b0c3ac..2ff902c65ed07e24262d115ca92ad84235d72893 100644 (file)
--- a/youtube_dl/extractor/lynda.py
+++ b/youtube_dl/extractor/lynda.py
@@ -36,7 +36,7 @@ class LyndaBaseIE(InfoExtractor):
             'stayPut': 'false'
         }
         request = compat_urllib_request.Request(
-            self._LOGIN_URL, compat_urllib_parse.urlencode(login_form))
+            self._LOGIN_URL, compat_urllib_parse.urlencode(login_form).encode('utf-8'))
         login_page = self._download_webpage(
             request, None, 'Logging in as %s' % username)