From 4e7df6fc7165ffcd5f4f06bed7ad7e407b966fae Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Peter Landgren <peter.talken@telia.com>
Date: Tue, 8 Sep 2009 13:37:48 +0000
Subject: [PATCH] String must be unicode for truncation to work for non ascii
 characters.

svn: r13178
---
 src/plugins/gramplet/HeadlineNewsGramplet.py | 4 ++--
 1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)

diff --git a/src/plugins/gramplet/HeadlineNewsGramplet.py b/src/plugins/gramplet/HeadlineNewsGramplet.py
index 37f3db5e9..7fce1675b 100644
--- a/src/plugins/gramplet/HeadlineNewsGramplet.py
+++ b/src/plugins/gramplet/HeadlineNewsGramplet.py
@@ -146,7 +146,7 @@ class HeadlineNewsGramplet(Gramplet):
                             if (node2.nodeName == "item"):
                                 title = ""
                                 link = ""
-                                desc = ""
+                                desc = u""
                                 # Gather up the data:
                                 for item_node in node2.childNodes:
                                     #print "---> ", item_node.nodeName
@@ -186,7 +186,7 @@ class HeadlineNewsGramplet(Gramplet):
 
     def strip_html(self, text):
         text = text.replace("nbsp;", " ")
-        retval = ""
+        retval = u""
         last_c = None
         state = "plain"
         for c in text: