From 1b13f0050302a232a95bcfd04fee3628ecda4091 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Pragmatic Software <pragma78@gmail.com>
Date: Mon, 27 Nov 2017 19:18:00 -0800
Subject: [PATCH] Fix utf8 encoding issue with code-factoids?

---
 PBot/Factoids.pm | 5 +++++
 1 file changed, 5 insertions(+)

diff --git a/PBot/Factoids.pm b/PBot/Factoids.pm
index 0441ac6a..3a4c81c4 100644
--- a/PBot/Factoids.pm
+++ b/PBot/Factoids.pm
@@ -697,6 +697,11 @@ sub execute_code_factoid_using_vm {
     $h{'persist-key'} = $self->{factoids}->hash->{$stuff->{channel}}->{$stuff->{keyword}}->{'persist-key'};
   }
 
+  # not sure why we need this here, but it seems to stop strange
+  # text encoding issues in the following encode_json call
+  use Encode;
+  $h{arguments} = decode('utf8', $h{arguments});
+
   my $json = encode_json \%h;
 
   $stuff->{special} = 'code-factoid';