From 707d7abf6debaea196d8ac5f45a8d825bcc0b409 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Helmut Merz <helmutm@cy55.de>
Date: Tue, 13 Aug 2013 13:04:27 +0200
Subject: [PATCH] make sure part is encoded string (BeautifulSoup sometimes
 does not encode input

---
 util/html.py | 2 ++
 1 file changed, 2 insertions(+)

diff --git a/util/html.py b/util/html.py
index 25cf8f2..a8d9e4e 100644
--- a/util/html.py
+++ b/util/html.py
@@ -115,4 +115,6 @@ def extractFirstPart(value):
     else:
         text = stripAll(value)
         part = sentencePattern.split(text)[0]
+    if isinstance(part, unicode):
+        part = part.encode('UTF-8')
     return ('<p>%s</p>' % part).decode('utf8')