From f263935a519bac46c34103bee5eb2c75b3ec346e Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Bruno Cauet <brunocauet@gmail.com>
Date: Tue, 20 Jan 2015 16:51:44 +0100
Subject: [PATCH] Prevent shlex.split from returning strange encodings

---
 beets/ui/commands.py | 4 ++--
 1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)

diff --git a/beets/ui/commands.py b/beets/ui/commands.py
index ea70b5170..2d8d4a8a9 100644
--- a/beets/ui/commands.py
+++ b/beets/ui/commands.py
@@ -1494,9 +1494,9 @@ def config_edit():
     path = config.user_config_path()
 
     if 'EDITOR' in os.environ:
-        editor = os.environ['EDITOR']
+        editor = os.environ['EDITOR'].encode('utf8')
         try:
-            editor = shlex.split(editor)
+            editor = [e.decode('utf8') for e in shlex.split(editor)]
         except ValueError:  # Malformed shell tokens.
             editor = [editor]
         args = editor + [path]