From d8329c4a383109500b9215c851d4ee64d159c4b0 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Geoffrey Sneddon <geoffers@gmail.com>
Date: Sun, 8 May 2016 00:15:16 +0100
Subject: [PATCH 1/2] lxml should only ever return an ASCII string as a str

See <http://lxml.de/FAQ.html#why-does-lxml-sometimes-return-str-values-for-text-in-python-2>
---
 html5lib/treewalkers/lxmletree.py | 2 +-
 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/html5lib/treewalkers/lxmletree.py b/html5lib/treewalkers/lxmletree.py
index 173fa082..36850086 100644
--- a/html5lib/treewalkers/lxmletree.py
+++ b/html5lib/treewalkers/lxmletree.py
@@ -15,7 +15,7 @@ def ensure_str(s):
     elif isinstance(s, text_type):
         return s
     else:
-        return s.decode("utf-8", "strict")
+        return s.decode("ascii", "strict")
 
 
 class Root(object):

From 10f4d57dceb1aac84390238ec9fd66c80006a0d1 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Geoffrey Sneddon <geoffers@gmail.com>
Date: Mon, 9 May 2016 20:46:42 -0700
Subject: [PATCH 2/2] fixup! lxml should only ever return an ASCII string as a
 str