From d36a161f31813bf68f1a41d224aa8d86dce8e7d1 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Luke Campagnola <lukec@alleninstitute.org>
Date: Mon, 1 May 2017 09:34:37 -0700
Subject: [PATCH] Fixed unicode error when exporting to SVG with non-ascii
 symbols

---
 pyqtgraph/exporters/SVGExporter.py | 2 +-
 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/pyqtgraph/exporters/SVGExporter.py b/pyqtgraph/exporters/SVGExporter.py
index ccf92165..fdc65080 100644
--- a/pyqtgraph/exporters/SVGExporter.py
+++ b/pyqtgraph/exporters/SVGExporter.py
@@ -190,7 +190,7 @@ def _generateItemSvg(item, nodes=None, root=None):
             xmlStr = str(arr)
         else:
             xmlStr = bytes(arr).decode('utf-8')
-        doc = xml.parseString(xmlStr)
+        doc = xml.parseString(xmlStr.encode('utf-8'))
         
     try:
         ## Get top-level group for this item