From 01c8dc7f78352c6e11b75b67efa0f816e0881702 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: James McCoy <jamessan@users.sourceforge.net>
Date: Sat, 22 Oct 2011 14:57:20 -0400
Subject: [PATCH] String.decode: Only encode('utf-8') when the decode string is
 unicode

Closes: Sf#3165718
Signed-off-by: James McCoy <jamessan@users.sourceforge.net>
---
 plugins/String/plugin.py | 7 ++++++-
 1 file changed, 6 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/plugins/String/plugin.py b/plugins/String/plugin.py
index cbacafd3f..bcfc1caa4 100644
--- a/plugins/String/plugin.py
+++ b/plugins/String/plugin.py
@@ -79,7 +79,12 @@ class String(callbacks.Plugin):
         <http://docs.python.org/library/codecs.html#standard-encodings>.
         """
         try:
-            irc.reply(text.decode(encoding).encode('utf-8'))
+            s = text.decode(encoding)
+            # Not all encodings decode to a unicode object.  Only encode those
+            # that do.
+            if isinstance(s, unicode):
+                s = s.encode('utf-8')
+            irc.reply(s)
         except LookupError:
             irc.errorInvalid('encoding', encoding)
         except binascii.Error: