encode filename (Debian#435397)

diff --git a/python/magic.py b/python/magic.py
index bd42f565ea9c103a29572ab0856c4ee02212cf0e..1504c67c875c202db89d14a36b466ad71965437f 100644 (file)
--- a/python/magic.py
+++ b/python/magic.py
@@ -119,7 +119,7 @@ class Magic(object):
             bi = bytes(filename, 'utf-8')
             return str(_file(self._magic_t, bi), 'utf-8')
         except:
-            return _file(self._magic_t, filename)
+            return _file(self._magic_t, filename.encode('utf-8'))
 
     def descriptor(self, fd):
         """