From bca11618be007a472dc86a8d0d4d23de8fde5f23 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: David Paleino <d.paleino@gmail.com>
Date: Fri, 4 May 2012 08:32:45 +0200
Subject: [PATCH] Better fix for the property sanitation

---
 wicd/misc.py | 2 +-
 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/wicd/misc.py b/wicd/misc.py
index 4fcfee3..cc882e3 100644
--- a/wicd/misc.py
+++ b/wicd/misc.py
@@ -433,7 +433,7 @@ def sanitize_config(s):
 
     # s is a dbus.String -- since we don't allow unicode property keys,
     # make it simple.
-    return str(s).translate(None, table)
+    return s.encode('ascii', 'replace').translate(None, table)
 
 def sanitize_escaped(s):
     """ Sanitize double-escaped unicode strings. """