From 4d35ba17c2dbd4e57ba7d7561c0c1570aee2bb96 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: KeyserSosa <chris@reddit.com>
Date: Wed, 4 Mar 2009 12:21:52 -0800
Subject: [PATCH] inadvertantly broke traffic tracking of cnamed reddits. 
 safe_str now does as advertised

---
 r2/r2/lib/tracking.py | 2 +-
 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/r2/r2/lib/tracking.py b/r2/r2/lib/tracking.py
index 4827c67f0..9fc6b5a25 100644
--- a/r2/r2/lib/tracking.py
+++ b/r2/r2/lib/tracking.py
@@ -83,7 +83,7 @@ def safe_str(text):
     except:
         g.log.error("unicode encoding exception in safe_str")
         return ''
-    return text
+    return str(text)
 
 class Info(object): 
     '''Class for generating and reading user tracker information.'''