From f7f17aef4a3af9b9bbc341bf647c860546737124 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Bob Mottram <bob@freedombone.net>
Date: Mon, 15 Mar 2021 19:10:08 +0000
Subject: [PATCH] Convert to string

---
 notifications_client.py | 8 ++++----
 1 file changed, 4 insertions(+), 4 deletions(-)

diff --git a/notifications_client.py b/notifications_client.py
index 4564be25b..89dc290f8 100644
--- a/notifications_client.py
+++ b/notifications_client.py
@@ -452,8 +452,8 @@ def _showLocalBox(notifyJson: {}, boxName: str,
         while len(posStr) < 3:
             posStr += ' '
         if speakerJson.get('name'):
-            udata = speakerJson['name'].decode("utf-8")
-            name = udata.encode("ascii","ignore")
+            udata = speakerJson['name']
+            name = str(udata.encode("ascii", "ignore"))
         else:
             name = ''
         if len(name) > 16:
@@ -461,8 +461,8 @@ def _showLocalBox(notifyJson: {}, boxName: str,
         else:
             while len(name) < 16:
                 name += ' '
-        udata = speakerJson['content'].decode("utf-8")
-        content = udata.encode("ascii","ignore")
+        udata = speakerJson['content']
+        content = str(udata.encode("ascii","ignore"))
         if speakerJson.get('detectedLinks'):
             if len(speakerJson['detectedLinks']) > 0:
                 content = '🔗' + content