From 24117dbf81df1dfd5d44ea1c1684571cec35825d Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: gryf <gryf73@gmail.com>
Date: Wed, 5 Aug 2020 12:35:35 +0200
Subject: [PATCH] Fix bytes/string issue for subprocess

---
 wicd/misc.py | 6 ++++--
 1 file changed, 4 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)

diff --git a/wicd/misc.py b/wicd/misc.py
index 108ad18..f070bb8 100644
--- a/wicd/misc.py
+++ b/wicd/misc.py
@@ -29,6 +29,7 @@ import re
 from pipes import quote
 import socket
 import string
+import subprocess
 from subprocess import Popen, STDOUT, PIPE, call
 from subprocess import getoutput
 import sys
@@ -151,7 +152,8 @@ def Run(cmd, include_stderr=False, return_pipe=False,
 
     try:
         f = Popen(cmd, shell=False, stdout=PIPE, stdin=std_in, stderr=err,
-                  close_fds=fds, cwd='/', env=tmpenv)
+                  close_fds=fds, cwd='/', env=tmpenv,
+                  encoding=sys.getdefaultencoding())
     except OSError as e:
         print(("Running command %s failed: %s" % (str(cmd), str(e))))
         return ""
@@ -161,7 +163,7 @@ def Run(cmd, include_stderr=False, return_pipe=False,
     if return_pipe:
         return f.stdout
     else:
-        return f.communicate()[0].decode()
+        return f.communicate()[0]
 
 
 def LaunchAndWait(cmd):