From c3fecac479a624ba1ea8d57b93a0c7c733b279f3 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Kovid Goyal <kovid@kovidgoyal.net>
Date: Sun, 18 May 2008 07:16:40 -0700
Subject: [PATCH] Fix #693

---
 src/calibre/web/fetch/simple.py | 5 ++++-
 1 file changed, 4 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/src/calibre/web/fetch/simple.py b/src/calibre/web/fetch/simple.py
index 6308eab3a0..1f489bd011 100644
--- a/src/calibre/web/fetch/simple.py
+++ b/src/calibre/web/fetch/simple.py
@@ -250,7 +250,10 @@ class RecursiveFetcher(object, LoggingInterface):
                 self.log_debug('Error: %s', str(err), exc_info=True)
                 continue
             c += 1
-            imgpath = os.path.join(diskpath, sanitize_file_name('img'+str(c)+ext))
+            fname = sanitize_file_name('img'+str(c)+ext)
+            if isinstance(fname, unicode):
+                fname = fname.encode('ascii', 'replace')
+            imgpath = os.path.join(diskpath, fname)
             with self.imagemap_lock:
                 self.imagemap[iurl] = imgpath
             open(imgpath, 'wb').write(f.read())