From 6a0fa994ca6623d31221b1705f5cabc3b64596a9 2011-06-01 22:11:31
From: Min RK <benjaminrk@gmail.com>
Date: 2011-06-01 22:11:31
Subject: [PATCH] Merge pull request #490 from mspacek/svg-unicode

fix UnicodeEncodeError writing SVG string to .svg file
 
closes gh-489
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diff --git a/IPython/frontend/qt/svg.py b/IPython/frontend/qt/svg.py
index 8081dca..aa2bf4b 100644
--- a/IPython/frontend/qt/svg.py
+++ b/IPython/frontend/qt/svg.py
@@ -21,6 +21,9 @@ def save_svg(string, parent=None):
     The name of the file to which the document was saved, or None if the save
     was cancelled.
     """
+    if isinstance(string, unicode):
+        string = string.encode('utf-8')
+
     dialog = QtGui.QFileDialog(parent, 'Save SVG Document')
     dialog.setAcceptMode(QtGui.QFileDialog.AcceptSave)
     dialog.setDefaultSuffix('svg')