From 9f859a0912209e6db189a4483470037ecddf5678 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Yorik van Havre <yorik@uncreated.net>
Date: Mon, 23 Jan 2017 10:15:59 -0200
Subject: [PATCH] Draft: Fixed encoding bug in dwg import - fixes #2872

---
 src/Mod/Draft/importDWG.py | 4 ++++
 1 file changed, 4 insertions(+)

diff --git a/src/Mod/Draft/importDWG.py b/src/Mod/Draft/importDWG.py
index 52e1ecce0..4b0304777 100644
--- a/src/Mod/Draft/importDWG.py
+++ b/src/Mod/Draft/importDWG.py
@@ -100,6 +100,10 @@ def convertToDxf(dwgfilename):
         basename = os.path.basename(dwgfilename)
         cmdline = '"%s" "%s" "%s" "ACAD2000" "DXF" "0" "1" "%s"' % (teigha, indir, outdir, basename)
         print("Converting: " + cmdline)
+        if isinstance(cmdline,unicode):
+            import sys
+            encoding = sys.getfilesystemencoding()
+            cmdline = cmdline.encode(encoding)
         subprocess.call(cmdline,  shell=True)     #os.system(cmdline)
         result = outdir + os.sep + os.path.splitext(basename)[0] + ".dxf"
         if os.path.exists(result):