From 4fa6e6ff090552dd8099a20751e5a184a85d9ba1 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Heitor Silva <heitor-silva@hotmail.com>
Date: Wed, 6 Jan 2016 11:47:16 -0200
Subject: [PATCH] Fixing the error 'must be char, not unicode' that happens on
 Windows for default Python getpass function

---
 jrnl/util.py | 7 ++++++-
 1 file changed, 6 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/jrnl/util.py b/jrnl/util.py
index e9df0fb1..682814c4 100644
--- a/jrnl/util.py
+++ b/jrnl/util.py
@@ -28,7 +28,12 @@ log = logging.getLogger(__name__)
 
 def getpass(prompt="Password: "):
     if not TEST:
-        return gp.getpass(prompt)
+        try:
+            passwd = gp.getpass(prompt)
+        except TypeError:
+            passwd = gp.getpass(prompt.encode('ascii', 'ignore'))
+
+        return passwd
     else:
         return py23_input(prompt)