From ea89be5f4a2ef52c70533d1c3fbde756063fd2ff Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Damien Elmes <git@ichi2.net>
Date: Tue, 8 Jan 2013 10:40:51 +0900
Subject: [PATCH] make sure we encode data as utf8 before checksumming

---
 anki/utils.py | 2 ++
 1 file changed, 2 insertions(+)

diff --git a/anki/utils.py b/anki/utils.py
index e4209f190..eef69e8ce 100644
--- a/anki/utils.py
+++ b/anki/utils.py
@@ -240,6 +240,8 @@ def splitFields(string):
 ##############################################################################
 
 def checksum(data):
+    if isinstance(data, unicode):
+        data = data.encode("utf-8")
     return sha1(data).hexdigest()
 
 def fieldChecksum(data):