From 64636d9de0b7d2bbddb30bc3e21070db64d67202 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Andrey Che <andrey.chertolyas@gmail.com>
Date: Wed, 5 Dec 2018 14:33:58 +0800
Subject: [PATCH] fix synchronize handling of encrypted hosts on delegation
 (#49460)

* Fix for #49363

* Replaced str() with to_text() as more python version safe

* Changed to comply to errors stragegy
---
 lib/ansible/plugins/action/synchronize.py | 2 +-
 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/lib/ansible/plugins/action/synchronize.py b/lib/ansible/plugins/action/synchronize.py
index 59d9376712c..0c0a89cbf0e 100644
--- a/lib/ansible/plugins/action/synchronize.py
+++ b/lib/ansible/plugins/action/synchronize.py
@@ -49,7 +49,7 @@ class ActionModule(ActionBase):
         return path
 
     def _host_is_ipv6_address(self, host):
-        return ':' in host
+        return ':' in to_text(host, errors='surrogate_or_strict')
 
     def _format_rsync_rsh_target(self, host, path, user):
         ''' formats rsync rsh target, escaping ipv6 addresses if needed '''