From 3825d31a2f10e898ee1124be37fe2a473a217542 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Neil Williams <neil@reddit.com>
Date: Sat, 19 Nov 2011 01:33:14 -0800
Subject: [PATCH] _force_unicode: Bail out early if text is already unicode.

---
 r2/r2/lib/filters.py | 3 +++
 1 file changed, 3 insertions(+)

diff --git a/r2/r2/lib/filters.py b/r2/r2/lib/filters.py
index 5c5836466..bc6e9e3c4 100644
--- a/r2/r2/lib/filters.py
+++ b/r2/r2/lib/filters.py
@@ -88,6 +88,9 @@ def _force_unicode(text):
     if text == None:
         return u''
 
+    if isinstance(text, unicode):
+        return text
+
     try:
         text = unicode(text, 'utf-8')
     except UnicodeDecodeError: