From 0fc23f68f71faa38219eacfba607683434da64b5 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Kovid Goyal <kovid@kovidgoyal.net>
Date: Wed, 29 Apr 2015 12:08:39 +0530
Subject: [PATCH] Get rid of useless check

---
 src/calibre/startup.py | 7 +------
 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 6 deletions(-)

diff --git a/src/calibre/startup.py b/src/calibre/startup.py
index ceb1ae502f..0e025a8372 100644
--- a/src/calibre/startup.py
+++ b/src/calibre/startup.py
@@ -55,12 +55,7 @@ if not _run_once:
     # Convert command line arguments to unicode
     enc = preferred_encoding
     if isosx:
-        # Newer versions of OS X seem to use UTF-8
-        try:
-            [x.decode('utf-8') for x in sys.argv[1:]]
-            enc = 'utf-8'
-        except:
-            pass
+        enc = 'utf-8'
     for i in range(1, len(sys.argv)):
         if not isinstance(sys.argv[i], unicode):
             sys.argv[i] = sys.argv[i].decode(enc, 'replace')