From 53697d3bd207ed4f970d7a726625e315975b7147 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: wmayer <wmayer@users.sourceforge.net>
Date: Mon, 13 Aug 2012 12:50:07 +0200
Subject: [PATCH] Convert unicode into string for de-serialized strings from
 JSON

---
 src/Gui/ViewProviderPythonFeature.cpp | 2 ++
 1 file changed, 2 insertions(+)

diff --git a/src/Gui/ViewProviderPythonFeature.cpp b/src/Gui/ViewProviderPythonFeature.cpp
index ed84b97dd..144d15815 100644
--- a/src/Gui/ViewProviderPythonFeature.cpp
+++ b/src/Gui/ViewProviderPythonFeature.cpp
@@ -498,6 +498,8 @@ const char* ViewProviderPythonFeatureImp::getDefaultDisplayMode() const
                 Py::Callable method(vp.getAttr(std::string("getDefaultDisplayMode")));
                 Py::Tuple args(0);
                 Py::String str(method.apply(args));
+                if (str.isUnicode())
+                    str = str.encode("ascii"); // json converts strings into unicode
                 mode = str.as_std_string();
                 return mode.c_str();
             }