From 4163614ef7af83524bc71434176366008ebc7e09 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Kovid Goyal <kovid@kovidgoyal.net>
Date: Sat, 17 Oct 2020 08:24:49 +0530
Subject: [PATCH] Fix #1900213 [Calibre crash in get_extra_css(ln 27) 
 bytes-like object needed](https://bugs.launchpad.net/calibre/+bug/1900213)

---
 recipes/smashing.recipe | 2 +-
 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/recipes/smashing.recipe b/recipes/smashing.recipe
index 7c7d7580b4..840ca8b36f 100644
--- a/recipes/smashing.recipe
+++ b/recipes/smashing.recipe
@@ -25,7 +25,7 @@ class SmashingMagazine (BasicNewsRecipe):
         if not self.extra_css:
             br = self.get_browser()
             self.extra_css = br.open_novisit(
-                'https://raw.githubusercontent.com/laMarciana/gutenweb/master/dist/gutenweb.css').read().replace('@charset "UTF-8";', '')
+                'https://raw.githubusercontent.com/laMarciana/gutenweb/master/dist/gutenweb.css').read().decode('utf-8').replace('@charset "UTF-8";', '')
         return self.extra_css
 
     feeds = [