1 files changed, 1 insertions, 1 deletions

diff --git a/tests/rest/client/v2_alpha/test_relations.py b/tests/rest/client/v2_alpha/test_relations.py

index 856aa8682f..2e2f94742e 100644
--- a/tests/rest/client/v2_alpha/test_relations.py
+++ b/tests/rest/client/v2_alpha/test_relations.py
@@ -273,7 +273,7 @@ class RelationsTestCase(unittest.HomeserverTestCase):
 
         prev_token = None
         found_event_ids = []
-        encoded_key = urllib.parse.quote_plus("👍".encode("utf-8"))
+        encoded_key = urllib.parse.quote_plus("👍".encode())
         for _ in range(20):
             from_token = ""
             if prev_token: