From 056be32ac1cbca1b71e4dcf25dea75baba279207 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Miroslav Stampar <miroslav.stampar@gmail.com>
Date: Tue, 23 Oct 2012 17:06:31 +0200
Subject: [PATCH] Fix for Issue #213

---
 lib/core/common.py | 2 ++
 1 file changed, 2 insertions(+)

diff --git a/lib/core/common.py b/lib/core/common.py
index 6eb029c6c..e77c08a5a 100644
--- a/lib/core/common.py
+++ b/lib/core/common.py
@@ -3189,6 +3189,8 @@ def decodeHexValue(value):
                     value = value.decode("utf-16-be")
                 except UnicodeDecodeError:
                     pass
+            if not isinstance(value, unicode):
+                value = value.decode("utf8", "replace")
         return value
 
     try: