calculate-overlay/profiles/patches/net-p2p/bittorrent-5.2.2-unicode.patch

diff --git a/BitTorrent/HTTPHandler.py b/BitTorrent/HTTPHandler.py
index afabc63..91a745d 100644
--- a/BitTorrent/HTTPHandler.py
+++ b/BitTorrent/HTTPHandler.py
@@ -110,6 +110,8 @@ class HTTPConnector(object):
             #this is nasty but i'm unsure of a better way at the moment
             compressed = StringIO()
             gz = GzipFile(fileobj = compressed, mode = 'wb', compresslevel = 9)
+            if type(data) == unicode:
+                data = data.encode("utf8")
             gz.write(data)
             gz.close()
             compressed.seek(0,0) 
@@ -151,6 +153,8 @@ class HTTPConnector(object):
                 r.write(key + ': ' + str(value) + '\r\n')
             r.write('\r\n')
         if self.command != 'HEAD':
+            if type(data)==unicode:
+                data=data.encode("utf8")
             r.write(data)
         self.connection.write(r.getvalue())
         if self.connection.is_flushed():
diff --git a/BitTorrent/track.py b/BitTorrent/track.py
index ebedb70..4995b9c 100644
--- a/BitTorrent/track.py
+++ b/BitTorrent/track.py
@@ -54,6 +54,7 @@ import threading
 import traceback
 
 NOISY = False
+_ = lambda x:x
 
 def quote(x):
     return urllib.quote(x, safe='')