From 653ce7c2fca96bf9925946c8f14e3db1faca46cb Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Peter Landgren <peter.talken@telia.com>
Date: Sat, 11 Aug 2012 08:40:44 +0000
Subject: [PATCH] Issue 5964, UTF16reader returned str, shoul be unicode.

svn: r20200
---
 src/plugins/lib/libgedcom.py | 6 +++---
 1 file changed, 3 insertions(+), 3 deletions(-)

diff --git a/src/plugins/lib/libgedcom.py b/src/plugins/lib/libgedcom.py
index 98f841d81..121217866 100644
--- a/src/plugins/lib/libgedcom.py
+++ b/src/plugins/lib/libgedcom.py
@@ -1219,11 +1219,11 @@ class UTF16Reader(BaseReader):
         self.reset()
 
     def readline(self):
-        l = self.ifile.readline()
+        l = unicode(self.ifile.readline())
         if l.strip():
-            return l
+            return l.translate(STRIP_DICT)
         else:
-            return self.ifile.readline()
+            return unicode(self.ifile.readline()).translate(STRIP_DICT)
 
 class AnsiReader(BaseReader):