From 90d0fe55a42574154728ada1a896056b724ecb02 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: "Neal H. Walfield" <neal@walfield.org>
Date: Sat, 10 Dec 2011 14:49:15 +0000
Subject: [PATCH] Ensure that the string passed to md5 is 7-bit clean.

---
 src/rss_sqlite.py |    3 +++
 1 file changed, 3 insertions(+)

diff --git a/src/rss_sqlite.py b/src/rss_sqlite.py
index 9cbeb82..e64c8cc 100644
--- a/src/rss_sqlite.py
+++ b/src/rss_sqlite.py
@@ -54,6 +54,9 @@ import logging
 logger = logging.getLogger(__name__)
 
 def getId(string):
+    if issubclass(string.__class__, unicode):
+        string = string.encode('utf8', 'replace')
+
     return md5.new(string).hexdigest()
 
 def download_callback(connection):
-- 
1.7.9.5