From adcb3bd91747c8e242aa9a2a369c5a8e837dd2fc Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: "Erik C. Thauvin" <erik@thauvin.net>
Date: Wed, 13 Mar 2019 09:47:24 -0700
Subject: [PATCH] UTF-8 encode the db_creation_date_key globally.

---
 bin/fail2ban_digest | 4 ++--
 1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)

diff --git a/bin/fail2ban_digest b/bin/fail2ban_digest
index 00dba70..2f7af0e 100755
--- a/bin/fail2ban_digest
+++ b/bin/fail2ban_digest
@@ -34,7 +34,7 @@ import re
 import sys
 
 db_location = '/var/lib/fail2ban/digest'
-db_creation_date_key = 'db_creation_date'
+db_creation_date_key = u'db_creation_date'
 db_date_format = '%Y-%m-%d %H:%M:%S'
 default_mail_template = Template('''Hi,\n
 This is a digest email of the ${count} banned IPs between ${creation_date} and ${date_now}:
@@ -176,7 +176,7 @@ def db_busy_open(filename, flags, timeout):
 
 def add(db, ip):
 	db = db_busy_open(db_location + '/' + db + '.dbm', 'c', 30)
-	if db_creation_date_key.encode('UTF-8') not in db.keys():
+	if db_creation_date_key not in db.keys():
 		db[db_creation_date_key] = datetime.utcnow().strftime(db_date_format).encode('UTF-8')
 	event_date = ('%s, ' % datetime.utcnow().strftime(db_date_format)).encode('UTF-8')
 	try: