From 7152705d364590298675e0ee84e6d9a67bf1ee14 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Robert Kopaczewski <rk@23doors.com>
Date: Thu, 27 Apr 2017 09:46:04 +0200
Subject: [PATCH] Fix librabbitmq queue handling (#726)

---
 AUTHORS                        | 1 +
 kombu/transport/librabbitmq.py | 3 ++-
 2 files changed, 3 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/AUTHORS b/AUTHORS
index 7d810da5..b5f30aa9 100644
--- a/AUTHORS
+++ b/AUTHORS
@@ -109,6 +109,7 @@ Ralf Nyren <ralf-github@nyren.net>
 Randy Barlow <rbarlow@redhat.com>
 Raphael Michel <mail@raphaelmichel.de>
 Rob Ottaway <robottaway@gmail.com>
+Robert Kopaczewski <rk@23doors.com>
 Roger Hu <rhu@hearsaycorp.com>
 Rumyana Neykova <rumi.neykova@gmail.com>
 Rune Halvorsen <runeh@opera.com>
diff --git a/kombu/transport/librabbitmq.py b/kombu/transport/librabbitmq.py
index d5ed2b9c..8d91e474 100644
--- a/kombu/transport/librabbitmq.py
+++ b/kombu/transport/librabbitmq.py
@@ -62,7 +62,8 @@ class Channel(amqp.Channel, base.StdChannel):
         return body, properties
 
     def prepare_queue_arguments(self, arguments, **kwargs):
-        return to_rabbitmq_queue_arguments(arguments, **kwargs)
+        arguments = to_rabbitmq_queue_arguments(arguments, **kwargs)
+        return {k.encode('utf8'): v for k, v in items(arguments)}
 
 
 class Connection(amqp.Connection):