From 0ce5571c946b620c71bb20510b48deee29afe57a Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: deathbybandaid <sam@deathbybandaid.net>
Date: Wed, 5 Jun 2019 20:28:10 -0400
Subject: [PATCH] test

---
 sopel_modules/SpiceBot_AI/AI_aiml.py | 3 +--
 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 2 deletions(-)

diff --git a/sopel_modules/SpiceBot_AI/AI_aiml.py b/sopel_modules/SpiceBot_AI/AI_aiml.py
index 2631150..c164ae4 100644
--- a/sopel_modules/SpiceBot_AI/AI_aiml.py
+++ b/sopel_modules/SpiceBot_AI/AI_aiml.py
@@ -22,8 +22,7 @@ def bot_command_rule(bot, trigger):
         return
 
     message = trigger.args[1]
-    if isinstance(message, 'unicode'):
-        return
+    message = ''.join([x for x in message if ord(x) < 128])
 
     # ignore text coming from a valid prefix
     if str(message).startswith(tuple(bot.config.core.prefix_list)):