From fcd7fddbdd37e24b5817ba51109f576b972388cb Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Ben Kurtovic <ben.kurtovic@verizon.net>
Date: Fri, 20 Jul 2012 01:19:12 -0400
Subject: [PATCH] MD5 can't handle Unicode, so fully implement saving Unicode
 objects by fixing that.

---
 earwigbot/wiki/page.py | 3 ++-
 1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/earwigbot/wiki/page.py b/earwigbot/wiki/page.py
index 0852657..17274bc 100644
--- a/earwigbot/wiki/page.py
+++ b/earwigbot/wiki/page.py
@@ -345,7 +345,8 @@ class Page(CopyvioMixIn):
     def _build_edit_params(self, text, summary, minor, bot, force, section,
                            captcha_id, captcha_word):
         """Given some keyword arguments, build an API edit query string."""
-        hashed = md5(text).hexdigest()  # Checksum to ensure text is correct
+        unitxt = text.encode("utf8") if isinstance(text, unicode) else text
+        hashed = md5(unitxt).hexdigest()  # Checksum to ensure text is correct
         params = {"action": "edit", "title": self._title, "text": text,
                   "token": self._token, "summary": summary, "md5": hashed}