From 2255ee80a85439f10547a6f5a4f44a4a0920c22f Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Kovid Goyal <kovid@kovidgoyal.net>
Date: Mon, 3 Nov 2014 10:50:19 +0530
Subject: [PATCH] ...

---
 src/calibre/gui2/viewer/footnote.py | 2 +-
 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/src/calibre/gui2/viewer/footnote.py b/src/calibre/gui2/viewer/footnote.py
index d5a5bc8b1d..89bd21506e 100644
--- a/src/calibre/gui2/viewer/footnote.py
+++ b/src/calibre/gui2/viewer/footnote.py
@@ -27,7 +27,7 @@ class Footnotes(object):
         if fd is None:
             raw = self.document.javascript('window.calibre_extract.get_footnote_data()', typ='string')
             try:
-                fd = frozenset(unicode(QUrl(x).toLocalFile()) for x in json.loads(raw))
+                fd = frozenset(QUrl(x).toLocalFile() for x in json.loads(raw))
             except Exception:
                 fd = frozenset()
             self.footnote_data_cache[current_url] = fd