From cfbb494612c287a08e8b784995535a752845b376 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Peter Landgren <peter.talken@telia.com>
Date: Thu, 24 Jun 2010 07:49:14 +0000
Subject: [PATCH] Issue 4078, notes not in utf-8.

svn: r15592
---
 src/plugins/export/ExportGedcom.py | 9 ++++++++-
 1 file changed, 8 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/src/plugins/export/ExportGedcom.py b/src/plugins/export/ExportGedcom.py
index 85b875080..2fba2fdb0 100644
--- a/src/plugins/export/ExportGedcom.py
+++ b/src/plugins/export/ExportGedcom.py
@@ -1012,7 +1012,14 @@ class GedcomWriter(UpdateCallback):
         +1 <<CHANGE_DATE>> {0:1} 
         """
 
-        self.__writeln(0, '@%s@' % note.get_gramps_id(),  'NOTE ' + note.get())
+        # The note must be converted to unicode 
+        # Method stolen from ExportXml.py
+        line = note.get()
+        try:
+            line = unicode(line)
+        except:
+            line = unicode(str(line),errors='replace')
+        self.__writeln(0, '@%s@' % note.get_gramps_id(),  'NOTE ' + line)
 
     def __repos(self):
         """