From 681c0913092cdbef95a82896ffef33b832d7f6a9 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Jeremy Fincher <jemfinch@users.sourceforge.net>
Date: Fri, 13 Feb 2004 04:43:39 +0000
Subject: [PATCH] Instead of asserting non-unicodeness, let's just encode it.

---
 src/callbacks.py | 3 ++-
 1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/src/callbacks.py b/src/callbacks.py
index 6743b1896..9d1038bbb 100644
--- a/src/callbacks.py
+++ b/src/callbacks.py
@@ -101,7 +101,8 @@ def canonicalName(command):
     Currently, this makes everything lowercase and removes all dashes and
     underscores.
     """
-    assert not isinstance(command, unicode)
+    if isinstance(command, unicode):
+        command = command.encode('utf-8')
     special = '\t -_'
     reAppend = ''
     while command and command[-1] in special: