From 21fb9f43aeaf71eba13481f2976d299406fb1602 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Markus Unterwaditzer <markus@unterwaditzer.net>
Date: Wed, 16 Sep 2015 22:52:52 +0200
Subject: [PATCH] Always coerce to unicode strings

Fix for #268
---
 vdirsyncer/storage/dav.py | 4 ++--
 1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)

diff --git a/vdirsyncer/storage/dav.py b/vdirsyncer/storage/dav.py
index b51486a..b37c560 100644
--- a/vdirsyncer/storage/dav.py
+++ b/vdirsyncer/storage/dav.py
@@ -11,7 +11,7 @@ from .base import Item, Storage
 from .http import HTTP_STORAGE_PARAMETERS, USERAGENT, prepare_auth, \
     prepare_client_cert, prepare_verify
 from .. import exceptions, log, utils
-from ..utils.compat import text_type, to_native
+from ..utils.compat import text_type, to_native, to_unicode
 
 
 dav_logger = log.get(__name__)
@@ -599,7 +599,7 @@ class DavStorage(Storage):
         for prop in root.findall('.//' + lxml_selector):
             text = getattr(prop, 'text', None)
             if text:
-                return text
+                return to_unicode(text)
 
     def set_meta(self, key, value):
         try: