From 65b4ea27a5970a0c245246feb6f9173736807593 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Thomas Perl <m@thp.io>
Date: Tue, 15 Nov 2011 14:12:20 +0100
Subject: [PATCH] Unicode-related fixes

Again, it's time for Python 3 to come around soon!
---
 lib/urlwatch/html2txt.py | 3 +++
 urlwatch                 | 3 ++-
 2 files changed, 5 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/lib/urlwatch/html2txt.py b/lib/urlwatch/html2txt.py
index 6ef19ba..b3010ee 100644
--- a/lib/urlwatch/html2txt.py
+++ b/lib/urlwatch/html2txt.py
@@ -43,6 +43,9 @@ def html2text(data, method='lynx'):
     
     Dependencies: apt-get install lynx html2text
     """
+    if isinstance(data, unicode):
+        data = data.encode('utf-8')
+
     if method == 're':
         stripped_tags = re.sub(r'<[^>]*>', '', data)
         d = '\n'.join((l.rstrip() for l in stripped_tags.splitlines() if l.strip() != ''))
diff --git a/urlwatch b/urlwatch
index 01b5d22..4220e99 100755
--- a/urlwatch
+++ b/urlwatch
@@ -265,7 +265,8 @@ if __name__ == '__main__':
                 log.info('%s exists - creating unified diff' % filename)
                 old_data = open(filename).read()
 
-                if not isinstance(old_data, unicode):
+                if (not isinstance(old_data, unicode) and
+                        isinstance(data, unicode)):
                     # Fix for Python 2's unicode/str woes
                     data = data.encode('utf-8')
 
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