From e613f02469b7107a602ffe145d3036938a1cd7ba Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Benny Malengier <benny.malengier@gramps-project.org>
Date: Fri, 11 Jan 2013 13:04:50 +0000
Subject: [PATCH] fix encoding issue for python 3

svn: r21056
---
 gramps/gen/db/read.py | 5 ++++-
 1 file changed, 4 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/gramps/gen/db/read.py b/gramps/gen/db/read.py
index 486386374..e9fe01f0d 100644
--- a/gramps/gen/db/read.py
+++ b/gramps/gen/db/read.py
@@ -127,7 +127,10 @@ def __index_surname(surn_list):
                     NameOriginType.PATRONYMIC, NameOriginType.MATRONYMIC]) ])
     else:
         surn = ""
-    return surn.encode('utf-8')
+    if sys.version_info[0] < 3:
+        return surn.encode('utf-8')
+    else:
+        return surn
     
 
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