diff -up pyp2rpm-1.0.1/pyp2rpm/package_data.py.orig pyp2rpm-1.0.1/pyp2rpm/package_data.py
--- pyp2rpm-1.0.1/pyp2rpm/package_data.py.orig	2014-08-22 11:00:37.246161991 +0200
+++ pyp2rpm-1.0.1/pyp2rpm/package_data.py	2014-08-22 11:01:14.321608865 +0200
@@ -53,7 +53,7 @@ class PackageData(object):
         packager = subprocess.Popen('rpmdev-packager', stdout = subprocess.PIPE).communicate()[0].strip()
         date_str = time.strftime('%a %b %d %Y', time.gmtime())
         encoding = locale.getpreferredencoding()
-        return '{0} {1}'.format(date_str, packager.decode(encoding))
+        return u'{0} {1}'.format(date_str, packager.decode(encoding))
 
 class PypiData(PackageData):
     """Carries data about package from PyPI"""