From d7528ebe472131b9df45c5b9b249f567e144ddb0 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Thomas Fillon <thomas@parisson.com>
Date: Tue, 29 Apr 2014 15:00:57 +0200
Subject: [PATCH] Fix some bad unicode support when exported to h5py

In server mode there was a TypeError raise by h5py on some unicode
TypeError: No conversion path for dtype: dtype('<U*')
see https://github.com/h5py/h5py/issues/289

This commit in a temporary work-around until h5py get fixed
---
 timeside/analyzer/h5tools.py | 1 +
 timeside/decoder/file.py     | 4 ++--
 2 files changed, 3 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)

diff --git a/timeside/analyzer/h5tools.py b/timeside/analyzer/h5tools.py
index 2db446e..67e6137 100644
--- a/timeside/analyzer/h5tools.py
+++ b/timeside/analyzer/h5tools.py
@@ -29,6 +29,7 @@ def dict_to_hdf5(dict_like, h5group):
     attrs = dict_like.keys()
     for name in attrs:
         if dict_like[name] is not None:
+            print (name, dict_like[name])
             h5group.attrs[str(name)] = dict_like[name]
 
 
diff --git a/timeside/decoder/file.py b/timeside/decoder/file.py
index 88bedc1..41b3293 100644
--- a/timeside/decoder/file.py
+++ b/timeside/decoder/file.py
@@ -70,12 +70,12 @@ class FileDecoder(Decoder):
         self.from_stack = False
         self.stack = stack
 
-        self.uri = get_uri(uri)
+        self.uri = get_uri(uri).encode('utf8')
 
         if not sha1:
             self._sha1 = get_sha1(uri)
         else:
-            self._sha1 = sha1
+            self._sha1 = sha1.encode('utf8')
 
         self.uri_total_duration = get_media_uri_info(self.uri)['duration']
 
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