diff -ur kagu-dist/kagu-scanner.py kagu-dist-new/kagu-scanner.py
--- kagu-dist/kagu-scanner.py	2007-07-09 21:09:55.000000000 +0300
+++ kagu-dist-new/kagu-scanner.py	2007-07-09 21:33:55.292056160 +0300
@@ -357,6 +357,12 @@
       album = row['album']
       art_path = self.get_existing_cover(dir)
       if not art_path: art_path = self.get_net_album_cover(album,dir)
+      
+      if art_path:
+        tmp = art_path.encode('ascii','ignore')
+	if tmp != art_path:
+	    art_path = False
+
       if not art_path: art_path = "data/UNKNOWN_UNKNOWN.jpg"
 
       self.DB.set_album_art_path(album,art_path)
@@ -379,7 +385,7 @@
   def get_net_album_cover(self, album, dir):
     cover_dir = os.path.join(self.data_dir,'covers')
     if not os.path.exists(cover_dir): os.mkdir(cover_dir)
-    fn=os.path.join(cover_dir,album+'.jpg')
+    fn=os.path.join(cover_dir,album.encode('ascii','ignore')+'.jpg')
     if os.path.exists(fn):
       return fn # file already exists...
 
@@ -406,7 +412,7 @@
     print "Yahoo DL: "+filename.encode('ascii','ignore')
     urladdress="http://images.search.yahoo.com/search/images?"
     imageSearch = self._fix_net_search_string(search_string)
-    params = {'p':imageSearch}
+    params = {'p':imageSearch.encode('ascii', 'ignore')}
 
     txdata = urllib.urlencode(params)
     urladdress=urladdress+txdata+"&ei=UTF-8"
@@ -439,7 +445,7 @@
     print "MSN DL: "+filename.encode('ascii','ignore')
     urladdress="http://search.msn.com/images/results.aspx?"
     imageSearch = self._fix_net_search_string(search_string)
-    params = {'q':imageSearch}
+    params = {'q':imageSearch.encode('ascii', 'ignore')}
 
     txdata = urllib.urlencode(params)
     urladdress=urladdress+txdata+"&FORM=QBIR"