From 36feee99bc41a226de5e3f3c36396544a2faf1df Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: deathbybandaid <sam@deathbybandaid.net>
Date: Wed, 5 Jun 2019 19:13:14 -0400
Subject: [PATCH] test

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

diff --git a/sopel_modules/SpiceBot_AI/AI_aiml.py b/sopel_modules/SpiceBot_AI/AI_aiml.py
index 2a94236..bc80326 100644
--- a/sopel_modules/SpiceBot_AI/AI_aiml.py
+++ b/sopel_modules/SpiceBot_AI/AI_aiml.py
@@ -21,7 +21,7 @@ def bot_command_rule(bot, trigger):
     if not len(trigger.args):
         return
 
-    message = str(trigger.args[1], 'utf-8')
+    message = str(trigger.args[1]).encode('utf-8', 'replace')
 
     # ignore text coming from a valid prefix
     if str(message).startswith(tuple(bot.config.core.prefix_list)):