don't force encoding of urls to be utf-8 (we will fix this in formatreader instead)

Author: alimuldal

bioformats/tests/test_load_using_bioformats.py

@@ -53,7 +53,7 @@ def tearDown(self):
 
     def test_01_01_open_file(self):
         path = os.path.join(os.path.dirname(__file__), 'Channel1-01-A-01.tif')
-        url = "file:" + pathname2url(path).encode("utf-8")
+        url = "file:" + pathname2url(path)
         image, scale = load_image_url(
             url, rescale=False, wants_max_intensity=True)
         self.assertEqual(image.shape[0], 640)
@@ -71,7 +71,7 @@ def test_01_03_unicode_url(self):
         # raise an exception when converting URL to string
         #
         path = os.path.join(os.path.dirname(__file__), 'Channel1-01-A-01.tif')
-        url = "file:" + pathname2url(path).encode("utf-8")
+        url = "file:" + pathname2url(path)
         image, scale = load_image_url(
             url, rescale=False, wants_max_intensity=True)
         self.assertEqual(image.shape[0], 640)