From a83c75e647de2204bc84d38e977456f8e0d4a260 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Dmitri Bogomolov <4glitch@gmail.com>
Date: Thu, 22 Feb 2018 13:23:51 +0200
Subject: [PATCH] Prevent str -> unicode conversion of inventoryHash

---
 src/bitmessageqt/__init__.py | 3 +--
 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 2 deletions(-)

diff --git a/src/bitmessageqt/__init__.py b/src/bitmessageqt/__init__.py
index 43d24a19..e2c47a0b 100644
--- a/src/bitmessageqt/__init__.py
+++ b/src/bitmessageqt/__init__.py
@@ -2396,8 +2396,7 @@ class MyForm(settingsmixin.SMainWindow):
                 self.getCurrentSearchLine(tab)
             ):
                 continue
-            # inventoryHash surprisingly is of type unicode
-            inventoryHash = inventoryHash.encode('utf-8')
+
             if tableWidget == inbox \
                 and self.getCurrentAccount(treeWidget) == acct.address \
                 and self.getCurrentFolder(treeWidget) \