From cee382b3ad89d7009f4e5c8fa6ec9c54e8a8ac1d Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Tomeu Vizoso <tomeu@sugarlabs.org>
Date: Sun, 30 Aug 2009 14:30:46 +0000
Subject: Deal with unicode nick names (erikos) #889

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diff --git a/src/buddy.py b/src/buddy.py
index 2b83ee4..e85a925 100644
--- a/src/buddy.py
+++ b/src/buddy.py
@@ -974,9 +974,12 @@ class ShellOwner(GenericOwner):
         key_hash = profile.privkey_hash
         key = profile.pubkey
 
-        nick = client.get_string("/desktop/sugar/user/nick")
         color = client.get_string("/desktop/sugar/user/color")
         tags = client.get_string("/desktop/sugar/user/tags")
+        nick = client.get_string("/desktop/sugar/user/nick")
+
+        if not isinstance(nick, unicode):
+            nick = unicode(nick, 'utf-8')
 
         icon_file = os.path.join(env.get_profile_path(), "buddy-icon.jpg")
         f = open(icon_file, "r")
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