feed_child() only accepts UTF-8, so that's what we'll send for now

terminatorlib/plugins/custom_commands.py

@@ -126,7 +126,7 @@ class CustomCommandsMenu(plugin.MenuItem):
       if command[-1] != '\n':
         command = command + '\n'
       for terminal in data['terminals']:
-        terminal.vte.feed_child(command.encode(terminal.vte.get_encoding()))
+        terminal.vte.feed_child(command.encode())
 
     def configure(self, widget, data = None):
       ui = {}

terminatorlib/terminal.py

@@ -1198,8 +1198,7 @@ class Terminal(Gtk.VBox):
             ### Never send a CRLF to the terminal from here
             txt = txt.rstrip('\r\n')
             for term in self.terminator.get_target_terms(self):
-                txt = txt.encode(self.vte.get_encoding())
-                term.feed(txt)
+                term.feed(txt.encode())
             return
 
         widgetsrc = data.terminator.terminals[int(selection_data.get_data())]