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diff --git a/interfaces/web/Bugs-Everywhere-Web/libbe/editor.py b/interfaces/web/Bugs-Everywhere-Web/libbe/editor.py
index 93144b8..ec41006 100644
--- a/interfaces/web/Bugs-Everywhere-Web/libbe/editor.py
+++ b/interfaces/web/Bugs-Everywhere-Web/libbe/editor.py
@@ -15,6 +15,11 @@
# with this program; if not, write to the Free Software Foundation, Inc.,
# 51 Franklin Street, Fifth Floor, Boston, MA 02110-1301 USA.
+"""
+Define editor_string(), a function that invokes an editor to accept
+user-produced text as a string.
+"""
+
import codecs
import locale
import os
@@ -22,6 +27,7 @@ import sys
import tempfile
import doctest
+
default_encoding = sys.getfilesystemencoding() or locale.getpreferredencoding()
comment_marker = u"== Anything below this line will be ignored\n"
@@ -62,7 +68,8 @@ def editor_string(comment=None, encoding=None):
fhandle, fname = tempfile.mkstemp()
try:
if comment is not None:
- os.write(fhandle, '\n'+comment_string(comment))
+ cstring = u'\n'+comment_string(comment)
+ os.write(fhandle, cstring.encode(encoding))
os.close(fhandle)
oldmtime = os.path.getmtime(fname)
os.system("%s %s" % (editor, fname))