From 262e8d11647c8594228f832f9b1a868a3fa8413c Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Sebastian Silva <sebastian@somosazucar.org>
Date: Wed, 07 Aug 2013 06:46:03 +0000
Subject: Fix for http://tareas.somosazucar.org/hxp/issue7

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diff --git a/espeak_gst.py b/espeak_gst.py
index a492cf6..9234bd6 100644
--- a/espeak_gst.py
+++ b/espeak_gst.py
@@ -26,9 +26,15 @@ RATE_MAX = 200
 class AudioGrabGst(espeak.BaseAudioGrab):
     def speak(self, status, text):
         # XXX workaround for http://bugs.sugarlabs.org/ticket/1801
-        if not [i for i in unicode(text, 'utf-8', errors='ignore') \
-                if i.isalnum()]:
-            return
+        try:
+            if not [i for i in unicode(text, 'utf-8', errors='ignore') \
+                    if i.isalnum()]:
+                return
+        except TypeError: 
+            # XXX already Unicode? (fixes http://tareas.somosazucar.org/hxp/issue7)
+            if not [i for i in text if i.isalnum()]:
+                return
+
 
         self.make_pipeline('espeak name=espeak ! wavenc')
         src = self.pipeline.get_by_name('espeak')
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