From 80c6de0eb908269e5c8d5e061b2ebdad55b738e2 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Kovid Goyal <kovid@kovidgoyal.net>
Date: Tue, 23 Jul 2019 20:08:12 +0530
Subject: [PATCH] LIT Output: Fix regression in 3.41 caused by py3 porting that
 broke conversion of some files to LIT. Fixes #1837561 [Lit conversion error
 (Conversion options changed from
 default)](https://bugs.launchpad.net/calibre/+bug/1837561)

---
 src/calibre/ebooks/lit/writer.py | 2 ++
 1 file changed, 2 insertions(+)

diff --git a/src/calibre/ebooks/lit/writer.py b/src/calibre/ebooks/lit/writer.py
index f1191b781e..534570fd19 100644
--- a/src/calibre/ebooks/lit/writer.py
+++ b/src/calibre/ebooks/lit/writer.py
@@ -721,6 +721,8 @@ class LitWriter(object):
             dchunks.append(dchunk.getvalue())
             dcounts.append(dcount)
             if ichunk:
+                if not isinstance(name, bytes):
+                    name = name.encode('utf-8')
                 ichunk.write(decint(len(name)))
                 ichunk.write(name)
                 ichunk.write(decint(cid))