# HG changeset patch
# User jakob krainz <jakob@hawo-net.de>
# Date 1362573862 -3600
#      Wed Mar 06 13:44:22 2013 +0100
# Node ID 42d8ca01a203e568f710504beca8768de5739e3e
# Parent  e02e33d3cd55edf062b8c634ab77d5adabd244d7
bugfix

diff --git a/src/b.py b/src/b.py
--- a/src/b.py
+++ b/src/b.py
@@ -137,7 +137,10 @@
     Currently SHA1 hashing is used.  It should be plenty for our purposes.
     
     """
-    return hashlib.sha1(text.encode('utf-8')).hexdigest()
+    try:
+        return hashlib.sha1(text.encode('utf-8')).hexdigest()
+    except UnicodeDecodeError as e:
+        return hashlib.sha1(text).hexdigest()
 
 def _mkdir_p(path):
     """ race condition handling recursive mkdir -p call
@@ -892,4 +895,4 @@
                 ret.append(file)
     ui.write(ret if bug_change else None)
     ui.write('\n')
-    
\ No newline at end of file
+