From 725257ca3d7d52c8e4e67fd8bdd557a949792daa Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: MinchinWeb <w_minchin@hotmail.com>
Date: Sat, 13 Dec 2014 22:05:13 -0700
Subject: [PATCH] Removes leading 'b' on slugs in Python 3

---
 jrnl/util.py | 2 ++
 1 file changed, 2 insertions(+)

diff --git a/jrnl/util.py b/jrnl/util.py
index c6ea4659..5f0571cf 100644
--- a/jrnl/util.py
+++ b/jrnl/util.py
@@ -146,6 +146,8 @@ def slugify(string):
     """
     string = u(string)
     ascii_string = str(unicodedata.normalize('NFKD', string).encode('ascii', 'ignore'))
+    if PY3:
+        ascii_string = ascii_string[1:]     # removed the leading 'b'
     no_punctuation = re.sub(r'[^\w\s-]', '', ascii_string).strip().lower()
     slug = re.sub(r'[-\s]+', '-', no_punctuation)
     return u(slug)