diff --git a/recipes/gosc_niedzielny.recipe b/recipes/gosc_niedzielny.recipe
index 90d9e1de83..59c8fc2f26 100644
--- a/recipes/gosc_niedzielny.recipe
+++ b/recipes/gosc_niedzielny.recipe
@@ -13,7 +13,7 @@ class GN(BasicNewsRecipe):
         EDITION = 0
 
         __author__ = 'Piotr Kontek'
-        title = unicode('Gość niedzielny')
+        title = u'Gość niedzielny'
         description = 'Weekly magazine'
         encoding = 'utf-8'
         no_stylesheets = True
diff --git a/recipes/pescanik.recipe b/recipes/pescanik.recipe
index a60c35b4b8..a3d001181f 100644
--- a/recipes/pescanik.recipe
+++ b/recipes/pescanik.recipe
@@ -9,10 +9,10 @@ import re
 from calibre.web.feeds.news import BasicNewsRecipe
 
 class Pescanik(BasicNewsRecipe):
-    title                 = 'Peščanik'
+    title                 = u'Peščanik'
     __author__            = 'Darko Miletic'
-    description           = 'Peščanik je udruženje građana osnovano 2006. godine. Glavni proizvod Peščanika je radio emisija koja je emitovana na Radiju B92 od 02.02.2000. do 16.06.2011, a od septembra 2011. se emituje na osam radio stanica u Srbiji, Crnoj Gori i BiH'
-    publisher             = 'Peščanik'
+    description           = u'Peščanik je udruženje građana osnovano 2006. godine. Glavni proizvod Peščanika je radio emisija koja je emitovana na Radiju B92 od 02.02.2000. do 16.06.2011, a od septembra 2011. se emituje na osam radio stanica u Srbiji, Crnoj Gori i BiH'
+    publisher             = u'Peščanik'
     category              = 'news, politics, Serbia'
     oldest_article        = 10
     max_articles_per_feed = 100
@@ -45,4 +45,4 @@ class Pescanik(BasicNewsRecipe):
                   ]
 
     def print_version(self, url):
-        return url + 'print/'
\ No newline at end of file
+        return url + 'print/'
diff --git a/session.vim b/session.vim
index eb3f3935d9..d3708928dc 100644
--- a/session.vim
+++ b/session.vim
@@ -20,7 +20,11 @@ vipy.session.initialize(project_name='calibre', src_dir=src_dir,
             project_dir=project_dir, base_dir=project_dir)
 
 def recipe_title_callback(raw):
-    return eval(raw.decode('utf-8')).replace(' ', '_')
+    try:
+        return eval(raw.decode('utf-8')).replace(u' ', u'_')
+    except:
+        print ('Failed to decode recipe title: %r'%raw)
+        raise
 
 vipy.session.add_content_browser('<leader>r', 'Recipe',
     vipy.session.glob_based_iterator(os.path.join(project_dir, 'recipes', '*.recipe')),