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-rw-r--r--nova/compute/api.py2
1 files changed, 2 insertions, 0 deletions
diff --git a/nova/compute/api.py b/nova/compute/api.py
index 16ae07272..aa62e72cd 100644
--- a/nova/compute/api.py
+++ b/nova/compute/api.py
@@ -65,6 +65,8 @@ def generate_default_hostname(instance):
else:
table += '\0'
deletions += c
+ if isinstance(display_name, unicode):
+ display_name = display_name.encode('latin-1', 'ignore')
return display_name.translate(table, deletions)