From abef636c158d73369273eef10bb64ccc499fb4d3 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: deathbybandaid <sam@deathbybandaid.net>
Date: Wed, 5 Jun 2019 19:40:30 -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 2035902..03f089b 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 = trigger.args[1].encode('ascii', 'ignore')
+    message = str(trigger.args[1])
 
     # ignore text coming from a valid prefix
     if str(message).startswith(tuple(bot.config.core.prefix_list)):