From 88912e39735ab8ea25a9823ebc49c970efcc5e04 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Ghostkeeper <rubend@tutanota.com>
Date: Fri, 16 Mar 2018 16:05:51 +0100
Subject: [PATCH] Encode as UTF-8 before writing to gz

Turns out that gzip only accepts bytes as input, not str.

Contributes to issue CURA-5097.
---
 plugins/GCodeGzWriter/GCodeGzWriter.py | 2 +-
 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/plugins/GCodeGzWriter/GCodeGzWriter.py b/plugins/GCodeGzWriter/GCodeGzWriter.py
index 4ced6d03ba..06fafb5995 100644
--- a/plugins/GCodeGzWriter/GCodeGzWriter.py
+++ b/plugins/GCodeGzWriter/GCodeGzWriter.py
@@ -36,6 +36,6 @@ class GCodeGzWriter(MeshWriter):
         if not success: #Writing the g-code failed. Then I can also not write the gzipped g-code.
             return False
 
-        result = gzip.compress(gcode_textio.getvalue())
+        result = gzip.compress(gcode_textio.getvalue().encode("utf-8"))
         stream.write(result)
         return True