From d4adeacaa4003b2c08bdcc31cff3d7cdb8d831d0 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Doug Blank <doug.blank@gmail.com>
Date: Sat, 20 Mar 2010 12:41:37 +0000
Subject: [PATCH] 3739: Find duplicate people (error in soundex unicode)

svn: r14879
---
 src/soundex.py | 2 +-
 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/src/soundex.py b/src/soundex.py
index 753db1b44..e7d9c3556 100644
--- a/src/soundex.py
+++ b/src/soundex.py
@@ -48,7 +48,7 @@ def soundex(strval):
     "Return the soundex value to a string argument."
     
     strval = unicodedata.normalize('NFKD', 
-                strval.upper().strip()).encode('ASCII', 'ignore')
+                    unicode(strval.upper().strip())).encode('ASCII', 'ignore')
     if not strval:
         return "Z000"
     str2 = strval[0]