From f43864cd35614bad2a8f432597e466d5415014b4 2013-05-29 17:26:39
From: Zbigniew Jędrzejewski-Szmek <zbyszek@in.waw.pl>
Date: 2013-05-29 17:26:39
Subject: [PATCH] Decode user input into unicode

Author name: Gąbal
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Traceback (most recent call last):
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  File "./nbconvert/converters/../templates/skeleton/tex/null.tplx", line 25, in top-level template code
    ((*- block header -*))
  File "./nbconvert/converters/../templates/tex/latex_sphinx_base.tplx", line 141, in block "header"
    \renewcommand{\releasename}{((( nb.metadata._draft.release | escape_tex )))}
UnicodeDecodeError: 'ascii' codec can't decode byte 0xc4 in position 1: ordinal not in range(128)

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diff --git a/nbconvert/utils/console.py b/nbconvert/utils/console.py
index 2c5b125..c27512b 100644
--- a/nbconvert/utils/console.py
+++ b/nbconvert/utils/console.py
@@ -45,7 +45,7 @@ def input(prompt_text):
     if majorversion >= 3:
         return input(prompt_text) 
     else:
-        return raw_input(prompt_text)
+        return raw_input(prompt_text).decode(sys.stdin.encoding)
 
     
 def prompt_boolean(prompt, default=False):