From aa91316c268ecc00eb1217e9d2903cb52b675fe7 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Nikki Heald <nicky@notnowlewis.com>
Date: Wed, 1 Apr 2015 16:18:02 +0100
Subject: Allow unicode characters in gerrit commands

Trying to use pygerrit to submit reviews fails if there
is a unicode character in the review comment. This change
sees if the message is valid ascii, and if it's not,
encodes as utf-8.

Change-Id: Ia14d59d28b11a78bee9d89fd84fb09976015787f
---
 pygerrit/ssh.py | 6 ++++++
 1 file changed, 6 insertions(+)

diff --git a/pygerrit/ssh.py b/pygerrit/ssh.py
index 2955094..350eb48 100644
--- a/pygerrit/ssh.py
+++ b/pygerrit/ssh.py
@@ -171,6 +171,12 @@ class GerritSSHClient(SSHClient):
             raise ValueError("command must be a string")
         gerrit_command = "gerrit " + command
 
+        # are we sending non-ascii data?
+        try:
+            gerrit_command.encode('ascii')
+        except UnicodeEncodeError:
+            gerrit_command = gerrit_command.encode('utf-8')
+
         self._connect()
         try:
             stdin, stdout, stderr = self.exec_command(gerrit_command,
-- 
cgit v1.2.1