From 113cc218f82571cf07956c7ac0e75f039729eb83 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Laurent Bachelier <laurent@bachelier.name>
Date: Sun, 1 Dec 2013 20:13:23 +0100
Subject: [PATCH] Only convert to unicode when needed

Otherwise, it would crash if any unicode string was already
present.

Signed-off-by: Eric S. Raymond <esr@thyrsus.com>
---
 irkerhook.py | 3 ++-
 1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/irkerhook.py b/irkerhook.py
index 35f305a..c7c7b0d 100755
--- a/irkerhook.py
+++ b/irkerhook.py
@@ -88,7 +88,8 @@ class Commit:
                     self.url = webview
             except IOError:
                 self.url = ""
-        return unicode(self.template % self.__dict__, "utf-8")
+        res = self.template % self.__dict__
+        return unicode(res, 'UTF-8') if not isinstance(res, unicode) else res
 
 class GenericExtractor:
     "Generic class for encapsulating data from a VCS."
-- 
2.26.2