diff --git a/core/httptools.py b/core/httptools.py
index afa8c9ce..a8a1a517 100755
--- a/core/httptools.py
+++ b/core/httptools.py
@@ -417,7 +417,8 @@ def downloadpage(url, **opt):
         response['url'] = response['url'].replace('https://web.archive.org/save/', '')
 
     if type(response['data']) != str:
-        response['data'] = response['data'].decode('UTF-8')
+        try: response['data'] = response['data'].decode('utf-8')
+        except: response['data'] = response['data'].decode('ISO-8859-1')
 
     if not response['data']:
         response['data'] = ''
diff --git a/specials/trailertools.py b/specials/trailertools.py
index b291d4f2..295d3e7f 100644
--- a/specials/trailertools.py
+++ b/specials/trailertools.py
@@ -176,8 +176,7 @@ def youtube_search(item):
     patron += 'url":"([^"]+)'
     matches = scrapertools.find_multiple_matches(data, patron)
     for scrapedthumbnail, scrapedtitle, scrapedduration, scrapedurl in matches:
-        scrapedtitle = scrapedtitle.decode('utf8').encode('utf8')
-        scrapedtitle = scrapedtitle + " (" + scrapedduration + ")"
+        scrapedtitle = scrapedtitle if PY3 else scrapedtitle.decode('utf8').encode('utf8') + " (" + scrapedduration + ")"
         if item.contextual:
             scrapedtitle = "%s" % scrapedtitle
         url = urlparse.urljoin('https://www.youtube.com/', scrapedurl)
@@ -208,7 +207,7 @@ def abandomoviez_search(item):
     if item.page != "":
         data = httptools.downloadpage(item.page).data
     else:
-        titulo = item.contentTitle.decode('utf-8').encode('iso-8859-1')
+        titulo = item.contentTitle if PY3 else item.contentTitle.decode('utf-8').encode('iso-8859-1')
         post = urllib.urlencode({'query': titulo, 'searchby': '1', 'posicion': '1', 'orden': '1',
                                  'anioin': item.year, 'anioout': item.year, 'orderby': '1'})
         url = "http://www.abandomoviez.net/db/busca_titulo.php?busco2=%s" %item.contentTitle
@@ -217,7 +216,8 @@ def abandomoviez_search(item):
         if "No hemos encontrado ninguna" in data:
             url = "http://www.abandomoviez.net/indie/busca_titulo.php?busco2=%s" %item.contentTitle
             item.prefix = "indie/"
-            data = httptools.downloadpage(url, post=post).data.decode("iso-8859-1").encode('utf-8')
+            data = httptools.downloadpage(url, post=post).data
+            if not PY3: data = data.decode("iso-8859-1").encode('utf-8')
 
     itemlist = []
     patron = '(?:<td width="85"|<div class="col-md-2 col-sm-2 col-xs-3">).*?<img src="([^"]+)"' \