From e9b391686286489765ebc606afb591fe14e7b7e7 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Strahinja Val Markovic <val@markovic.io>
Date: Mon, 13 Jan 2014 10:00:05 -0800
Subject: [PATCH] More unicode conversions on the client

---
 python/ycm/utils.py      | 10 ++++++----
 python/ycm/vimsupport.py |  5 +++--
 2 files changed, 9 insertions(+), 6 deletions(-)

diff --git a/python/ycm/utils.py b/python/ycm/utils.py
index a36493b0..7bd0660f 100644
--- a/python/ycm/utils.py
+++ b/python/ycm/utils.py
@@ -39,10 +39,12 @@ def SanitizeQuery( query ):
   return query.strip()
 
 
-def ToUtf8IfNeeded( string_or_unicode ):
-  if isinstance( string_or_unicode, unicode ):
-    return string_or_unicode.encode( 'utf8' )
-  return string_or_unicode
+def ToUtf8IfNeeded( value ):
+  if isinstance( value, unicode ):
+    return value.encode( 'utf8' )
+  if isinstance( value, str ):
+    return value
+  return str( value )
 
 
 def PathToTempDir():
diff --git a/python/ycm/vimsupport.py b/python/ycm/vimsupport.py
index 5aad020b..1d25f2e3 100644
--- a/python/ycm/vimsupport.py
+++ b/python/ycm/vimsupport.py
@@ -20,6 +20,7 @@
 import vim
 import os
 import json
+from ycm.utils import ToUtf8IfNeeded
 
 def CurrentLineAndColumn():
   """Returns the 0-based current line and 0-based current column."""
@@ -190,7 +191,7 @@ def ConvertDiagnosticsToQfList( diagnostics ):
       'bufnr' : GetBufferNumberForFilename( location[ 'filepath' ] ),
       'lnum'  : location[ 'line_num' ] + 1,
       'col'   : location[ 'column_num' ] + 1,
-      'text'  : diagnostic[ 'text' ],
+      'text'  : ToUtf8IfNeeded( diagnostic[ 'text' ] ),
       'type'  : diagnostic[ 'kind' ],
       'valid' : 1
     }
@@ -311,7 +312,7 @@ def EchoText( text, log_as_message = True ):
 # Echos text but truncates it so that it all fits on one line
 def EchoTextVimWidth( text ):
   vim_width = GetIntValue( '&columns' )
-  truncated_text = text.encode('utf-8')[ : int( vim_width * 0.9 ) ]
+  truncated_text = ToUtf8IfNeeded( text )[ : int( vim_width * 0.9 ) ]
   truncated_text.replace( '\n', ' ' )
 
   old_ruler = GetIntValue( '&ruler' )