From 043223eac6a682ba6559a7385c5d5a1ac8061e8d Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: James Ralston <>
Date: Sun, 7 Mar 2010 22:03:08 -0800
Subject: [PATCH] renderContents as unicode

---
 src/calibre/ebooks/chm/metadata.py | 4 ++--
 1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)

diff --git a/src/calibre/ebooks/chm/metadata.py b/src/calibre/ebooks/chm/metadata.py
index 0ce1f0b07f..2f0c246d10 100644
--- a/src/calibre/ebooks/chm/metadata.py
+++ b/src/calibre/ebooks/chm/metadata.py
@@ -37,7 +37,7 @@ def _metadata_from_table(soup, searchfor):
     td = td.parent
     # there appears to be multiple ways of structuring the metadata
     # on the home page. cue some nasty special-case hacks...
-    if re.match(r'^\s*'+searchfor+r'\s*$', td.renderContents(), flags=re.I):
+    if re.match(r'^\s*'+searchfor+r'\s*$', td.renderContents(None), flags=re.I):
         meta = _detag(td.findNextSibling('td'))
         return re.sub('^:', '', meta).strip()
     else:
@@ -49,7 +49,7 @@ def _metadata_from_span(soup, searchfor):
     if span is None:
         return None
     # this metadata might need some cleaning up still :/
-    return _detag(span.renderContents().strip())
+    return _detag(span.renderContents(None).strip())
 
 def _get_authors(soup):
     aut = (_metadata_from_span(soup, r'author')