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When the category name is put on the command line in Linux

$ python pwb.py scripts/makecat.py -family:wikipedia -lang:en Roads_in_Kent
Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "pwb.py", line 157, in <module>
    run_python_file(fn, argv, argvu)
  File "pwb.py", line 67, in run_python_file
    exec(compile(source, filename, "exec"), main_mod.__dict__)
  File "scripts/makecat.py", line 217, in <module>
    workingcatname = unicode(workingcatname, 'utf-8')
TypeError: decoding Unicode is not supported
<type 'exceptions.TypeError'>
CRITICAL: Waiting for 1 network thread(s) to finish. Press ctrl-c to abort

It works correctly if the category name is entered via pywikibot.input()

$ python pwb.py scripts/makecat.py -family:wikipedia -lang:en 
Which page to start with? Roads_in_Kent
WARNING: unicode.setAction is DEPRECATED, use comment parameter for page saving method instead.
Retrieving 32 pages from wikipedia:en.
Retrieving 50 pages from wikipedia:en.

==Roy Phippen==
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