Japanese amazon encoding issue

Bug #1922309 reported by Laucian
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calibre
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Bug Description

The metadata plugin for Amazon changes the encoding of searches to Shift_JIS but Amazon now uses UTF-8 and gives no results to Shift_JIS searches.
Here is the offending bit of code.
https://github.com/kovidgoyal/calibre/blob/5f8239fa78d6639130528894ccf9e083bcaa34f3/src/calibre/ebooks/metadata/sources/amazon.py#L1181

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Kovid Goyal (kovid) wrote : Fixed in master

Fixed in branch master. The fix will be in the next release. calibre is usually released every alternate Friday.

 status fixreleased

Changed in calibre:
status: New → Fix Released
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