The configuration file contents are being returned as unicode now, so decoding them is no longer necessary. (Run python2 with -3 to see the warning before this commit)
The original statement raises uncaught UnicodeWarning on Python 2.6
Closes #9871
[toutv] fix info extraction(closes #1792)(closes #2082)
Closes #9972
Closes #9965
Closes #9955
Closes #9950
For #9950
Closes #10007