From fedd09d18cec4fc7eacc95a97d7fc393239733db Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Yorik van Havre <yorik@uncreated.net>
Date: Sun, 2 Nov 2014 15:47:29 -0200
Subject: [PATCH] Arch: Provisorily implemented workaround for utf8 paths and
 ifcopenshell - issue #1795

---
 src/Mod/Arch/importIFC.py | 3 +++
 1 file changed, 3 insertions(+)

diff --git a/src/Mod/Arch/importIFC.py b/src/Mod/Arch/importIFC.py
index 3571a1b0cb..6330402595 100644
--- a/src/Mod/Arch/importIFC.py
+++ b/src/Mod/Arch/importIFC.py
@@ -138,6 +138,9 @@ def insert(filename,docname,skip=[]):
     
     global ifcfile # keeping global for debugging purposes
     ifcopenshell.clean()
+    if isinstance(filename,unicode): 
+        import sys #workaround since ifcopenshell currently can't handle unicode filenames
+        filename = filename.encode(sys.getfilesystemencoding())
     ifcfile = ifcopenshell.open(filename)
     shape_attributes = ifcopenshell.SEW_SHELLS
     if SEPARATE_OPENINGS: shape_attributes += ifcopenshell.DISABLE_OPENING_SUBTRACTIONS