From 20e7555e5998b71e74ce438635be0cde8aaee509 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Michael Hogg <michael.christopher.hogg@gmail.com>
Date: Mon, 30 Sep 2013 09:54:25 +1000
Subject: [PATCH] Update PpmImagePlugin.py

Bug fix for encoding of b_whitespace
---
 PIL/PpmImagePlugin.py | 5 ++++-
 1 file changed, 4 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/PIL/PpmImagePlugin.py b/PIL/PpmImagePlugin.py
index c7c9c2eb4..a9c2bb283 100644
--- a/PIL/PpmImagePlugin.py
+++ b/PIL/PpmImagePlugin.py
@@ -24,7 +24,10 @@ from PIL import Image, ImageFile
 #
 # --------------------------------------------------------------------
 
-b_whitespace = string.whitespace.encode('ascii','ignore')
+import locale
+locale_name,locale_id = locale.getlocale()
+b_whitespace = string.whitespace.decode(locale_id)
+b_whitespace = b_whitespace.encode('ascii','ignore')
 
 MODES = {
     # standard