From 76911f3d38ed0cff93fd4e4ec81249f30d7ef5b1 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Alexander van Gessel <ai0867@gmail.com>
Date: Tue, 26 Nov 2013 21:47:50 +0100
Subject: [PATCH] Fix unicode processing

Signed-off-by: Eric S. Raymond <esr@thyrsus.com>
---
 NEWS   | 3 +++
 irkerd | 2 +-
 2 files changed, 4 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/NEWS b/NEWS
index b6d2f95..9eb4e80 100644
--- a/NEWS
+++ b/NEWS
@@ -1,5 +1,8 @@
 			irker history 
 
+Repository head:
+  Fixed unicode processing
+
 2.1 @ 2013-11-26
   A performance improvement in the git repository hook.
   Documentation polishing.
diff --git a/irkerd b/irkerd
index 24b3e77..0453a0a 100755
--- a/irkerd
+++ b/irkerd
@@ -348,7 +348,7 @@ class IRCServerConnection():
     def ship(self, string):
         "Ship a command to the server, appending CR/LF"
         try:
-            self.socket.send(string + b'\r\n')
+            self.socket.send(string.encode('utf-8') + b'\r\n')
             self.master.debug(2, "TO: %s" % string)
         except socket.error:
             self.disconnect("Connection reset by peer.")
-- 
2.26.2