Run all text through unicode() before putting it into the TextBuffer.

Note that "type" is a variable in the MessageWindow and used about a
hundred places throughout the code so the only way to get at type() is
by going looking for it in __builtins__.  I feel ill.

1 files changed, 3 insertions, 0 deletions

diff --git a/gui.py b/gui.py
index dfd0a345c..09bdd6ef2 100755
--- a/gui.py
+++ b/gui.py
@@ -1049,6 +1049,9 @@ class DetailedMessageWindow(MessageWindow):
             iter = textbuf.get_start_iter()
 
             for line in longText:
+                if __builtins__.get("type")(line) != unicode:
+                    line = unicode(line, encoding='utf-8')
+
                 textbuf.insert(iter, line)
 
             self.detailedView.set_buffer(textbuf)