Fix deprecated runu function

1 files changed, 2 insertions, 1 deletions

diff --git a/pexpect/__init__.py b/pexpect/__init__.py
index 9b80c1d..f7e13fd 100644
--- a/pexpect/__init__.py
+++ b/pexpect/__init__.py
@@ -220,8 +220,9 @@ def runu(command, timeout=30, withexitstatus=False, events=None,
         extra_args=None, logfile=None, cwd=None, env=None, **kwargs):
     """Deprecated: pass encoding to run() instead.
     """
+    kwargs.setdefault('encoding', 'utf-8')
     return run(command, timeout=timeout, withexitstatus=withexitstatus,
                 events=events, extra_args=extra_args, logfile=logfile, cwd=cwd,
-                env=env, _spawn=spawnu, **kwargs)
+                env=env, **kwargs)
 
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