From 9461eed380eae47b662760599a8e3399a4107597 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Philip Sargent <philip.sargent@gmail.com>
Date: Wed, 30 Mar 2022 23:56:40 +0100
Subject: [PATCH] mole whacking

---
 core/views/expo.py | 2 +-
 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/core/views/expo.py b/core/views/expo.py
index 7bad7f7..d439a9c 100644
--- a/core/views/expo.py
+++ b/core/views/expo.py
@@ -131,7 +131,7 @@ def expowebpage(request, expowebpath, path):
     except:
         try:
             with open(os.path.normpath(expowebpath / path), "rb") as o:   
-                html = o.read()
+                html = str(o.read())
         except:
             return HttpResponse(default_head +  '<h3>UTF-8 Parsing Failure:<br>Page could not be parsed using UTF-8:<br>failure detected in expowebpage in views.expo.py</h3> Please edit this <var>:expoweb:</var> page to replace dubious umlauts and &pound; symbols with correct HTML entities e.g. <em>&amp;pound;;</em>. </body' )