From 84f4ce3513ee1e2c79191d13ca5436519ddecf31 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: SNoiraud <serge.noiraud@laposte.net>
Date: Mon, 22 Feb 2016 15:42:04 +0100
Subject: [PATCH] TreeBaseModel : str has no encode method.

---
 gramps/gui/views/treemodels/treebasemodel.py | 2 +-
 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/gramps/gui/views/treemodels/treebasemodel.py b/gramps/gui/views/treemodels/treebasemodel.py
index ebf9966d1..802857e2b 100644
--- a/gramps/gui/views/treemodels/treebasemodel.py
+++ b/gramps/gui/views/treemodels/treebasemodel.py
@@ -914,7 +914,7 @@ class TreeBaseModel(GObject.GObject, Gtk.TreeModel, BaseModel):
         if val is None:
             return ''
         elif not isinstance(val, str):
-            return val.encode('utf-8')
+            return val.decode('utf-8')
         else:
             return val