From e6bef70a7ef1f22849867ce0a59a0f1008b2c0f1 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: John Schember <john@nachtimwald.com>
Date: Thu, 25 Jun 2009 09:00:37 -0400
Subject: [PATCH] TXT metadata reader: handle unicode characters.

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

diff --git a/src/calibre/ebooks/metadata/txt.py b/src/calibre/ebooks/metadata/txt.py
index 6283c72256..7833fb7263 100644
--- a/src/calibre/ebooks/metadata/txt.py
+++ b/src/calibre/ebooks/metadata/txt.py
@@ -14,9 +14,9 @@ def get_metadata(stream, extract_cover=True):
     mi = MetaInformation(_('Unknown'), [_('Unknown')])
     stream.seek(0)
 
-    mdata = ''
+    mdata = u''
     for x in range(0, 4):
-        line = stream.readline()
+        line = stream.readline().decode('utf-8')
         if line == '':
             break
         else: