From 6296d8813b4b9e174229c32075d16a9f42c024ca Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Ian Ward <ian@excess.org>
Date: Tue, 22 Sep 2015 08:34:25 -0400
Subject: [PATCH] [#2636] comment for the scary stuff

---
 ckan/pastertemplates/__init__.py | 2 ++
 1 file changed, 2 insertions(+)

diff --git a/ckan/pastertemplates/__init__.py b/ckan/pastertemplates/__init__.py
index eea0ebe6923..8277b33e2b3 100644
--- a/ckan/pastertemplates/__init__.py
+++ b/ckan/pastertemplates/__init__.py
@@ -51,6 +51,8 @@ class CkanextTemplate(Template):
     def check_vars(self, vars, cmd):
         vars = Template.check_vars(self, vars, cmd)
 
+        # workaround for a paster issue https://github.com/ckan/ckan/issues/2636
+        # this is only used from a short-lived paster command
         reload(sys)
         sys.setdefaultencoding('utf-8')