From 9f56b608e0a2cb3fd6184980a6d452f54b54fca2 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Kovid Goyal <kovid@kovidgoyal.net>
Date: Sat, 22 Mar 2014 22:59:01 +0530
Subject: [PATCH] ...

---
 src/calibre/utils/icu.py | 8 ++++----
 1 file changed, 4 insertions(+), 4 deletions(-)

diff --git a/src/calibre/utils/icu.py b/src/calibre/utils/icu.py
index 33bcc480f3..0fa9262de9 100644
--- a/src/calibre/utils/icu.py
+++ b/src/calibre/utils/icu.py
@@ -28,8 +28,8 @@ _nmodes = {m:getattr(_icu, 'UNORM_'+m, None) for m in ('NFC', 'NFD', 'NFKC', 'NF
 
 try:
     senc = sys.getdefaultencoding()
-    if not senc or senc.lower() == 'ascii':
-        _icu.set_default_encoding('utf-8')
+    if not senc or senc.lower() == b'ascii':
+        _icu.set_default_encoding(b'utf-8')
     del senc
 except:
     import traceback
@@ -37,8 +37,8 @@ except:
 
 try:
     fenc = sys.getfilesystemencoding()
-    if not fenc or fenc.lower() == 'ascii':
-        _icu.set_filesystem_encoding('utf-8')
+    if not fenc or fenc.lower() == b'ascii':
+        _icu.set_filesystem_encoding(b'utf-8')
     del fenc
 except:
     import traceback