diff --git a/beetsplug/discogs.py b/beetsplug/discogs.py
index aaf9442a2..b12802c6a 100644
--- a/beetsplug/discogs.py
+++ b/beetsplug/discogs.py
@@ -149,6 +149,9 @@ class DiscogsPlugin(BeetsPlugin):
         # cause a query to return no results, even if they match the artist or
         # album title. Use `re.UNICODE` flag to avoid stripping non-english
         # word characters.
+        # TEMPORARY: Encode as ASCII to work around a bug:
+        # https://github.com/sampsyo/beets/issues/1051
+        # When the library is fixed, we should encode as UTF-8.
         query = re.sub(r'(?u)\W+', ' ', query).encode('ascii', "replace")
         # Strip medium information from query, Things like "CD1" and "disk 1"
         # can also negate an otherwise positive result.