From 819b76f6575716ab35b43bf70af3b6ef42f8af93 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Kovid Goyal <kovid@kovidgoyal.net>
Date: Fri, 20 Apr 2012 14:20:09 +0530
Subject: [PATCH] ...

---
 src/calibre/ebooks/mobi/writer8/skeleton.py | 2 +-
 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/src/calibre/ebooks/mobi/writer8/skeleton.py b/src/calibre/ebooks/mobi/writer8/skeleton.py
index 04555467f3..d369e36b9d 100644
--- a/src/calibre/ebooks/mobi/writer8/skeleton.py
+++ b/src/calibre/ebooks/mobi/writer8/skeleton.py
@@ -65,7 +65,7 @@ def tostring(raw, **kwargs):
     if xml_declaration:
         ans = '<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>\n' + ans
     return re.sub(r'&#x([0-9A-Fa-f]+);', lambda m:mychr(int(m.group(1), 16)),
-            ans)
+            ans).encode('utf-8')
 
 class Chunk(object):