better handling of UTF in mpd

showing progress when adding song to playlist

1 files changed, 6 insertions, 3 deletions

diff --git a/mpd.py b/mpd.py
index 384f856..d7eea05 100644
--- a/mpd.py
+++ b/mpd.py
@@ -141,14 +141,17 @@ class MPDClient(object):
         self._commandlist.append(retval)
 
     def _writeline(self, line):
-        self._wfile.write("%s\n" % line)
+        self._wfile.write(("%s\n" % line).encode('utf-8'))
         self._wfile.flush()
 
     def _writecommand(self, command, args=[]):
         parts = [command]
         for arg in args:
-            parts.append('"%s"' % escape(str(arg)))
-        self._writeline(" ".join(parts))
+	    if type(arg)==int:
+		    parts.append('"%i"' % arg)
+	    else:
+	            parts.append(u'"%s"' % escape(arg))
+        self._writeline(u" ".join(parts))
 
     def _readline(self):
         line = self._rfile.readline()