From c39beb55593cd08abe67eddd902627d6171cb245 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Erik Johnston <erik@matrix.org>
Date: Fri, 12 Dec 2014 14:53:37 +0000
Subject: [PATCH] Store json as UTF-8 and not bytes

---
 synapse/storage/__init__.py | 2 +-
 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/synapse/storage/__init__.py b/synapse/storage/__init__.py
index 3bc3622169..079ddac605 100644
--- a/synapse/storage/__init__.py
+++ b/synapse/storage/__init__.py
@@ -168,7 +168,7 @@ class DataStore(RoomMemberStore, RoomStore,
             values={
                 "event_id": event.event_id,
                 "room_id": event.room_id,
-                "json": encode_canonical_json(event_dict),
+                "json": encode_canonical_json(event_dict).decode("UTF-8"),
             },
             or_replace=True,
         )