Add unicode encoding for handling text attachments

cloudant · Mar 4, 2016 · b0b522c · b0b522c
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commit b0b522c
Showing 1 changed file with 3 additions and 3 deletions.
diff --git a/src/cloudant/document.py b/src/cloudant/document.py
@@ -20,7 +20,7 @@
 import requests
 from requests.exceptions import HTTPError
 
-from ._2to3 import url_quote, url_quote_plus
+from ._2to3 import unicode_, url_quote, url_quote_plus
 from .errors import CloudantException
 
 
@@ -406,11 +406,11 @@ def get_attachment(
 
         if write_to is not None:
             if attachment_type == 'text' or attachment_type == 'json':
-                write_to.write(resp.text)
+                write_to.write(unicode_(resp.text))
             else:
                 write_to.write(resp.content)
         if attachment_type == 'text':
-            return resp.text
+            return unicode_(resp.text)
         elif attachment_type == 'json':
             return resp.json()