From 02b53930cfeb9f144ee7a0a31b4de943b810237a Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: JHCD <github@jhc.de>
Date: Sat, 4 Jul 2015 00:18:24 +0200
Subject: [PATCH] resolve issue #43

---
 plugins/firEmergency/firEmergency.py | 4 ++--
 1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)

diff --git a/plugins/firEmergency/firEmergency.py b/plugins/firEmergency/firEmergency.py
index a70d86e..ef46938 100644
--- a/plugins/firEmergency/firEmergency.py
+++ b/plugins/firEmergency/firEmergency.py
@@ -91,7 +91,7 @@ def run(typ,freq,data):
 					logging.debug("ZVEI to firEmergency")
 					try:
 							firXML = "<event>\n<address>"+data["zvei"]+"</address>\n<message>"+data["zvei"]+" alarmiert.</message>\n</event>\n"
-							firSocket.send(firXML)
+							firSocket.send(firXML.encode('utf-8'))
 					except:
 							logging.error("%s to firEmergency failed", typ)
 							logging.debug("%s to firEmergency failed", typ, exc_info=True)
@@ -102,7 +102,7 @@ def run(typ,freq,data):
 					logging.debug("POC to firEmergency")
 					try:
 							firXML = "<event>\n<address>"+data["ric"]+"</address>\n<message>"+data["msg"]+"</message>\n</event>\n"
-							firSocket.send(firXML)
+							firSocket.send(firXML.encode('utf-8'))
 					except:
 							logging.error("%s to firEmergency failed", typ)
 							logging.debug("%s to firEmergency failed", typ, exc_info=True)