From c733b2405355831a695dd5ee8ea908dd05b68e43 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: paulojamorim <paulojamorim@gmail.com>
Date: Wed, 2 Apr 2014 14:25:35 -0300
Subject: [PATCH] FIX: Fixed problem with unicode in DICOM gender field

---
 invesalius/reader/dicom.py |  9 ++++++++-
 1 file changed, 8 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/invesalius/reader/dicom.py b/invesalius/reader/dicom.py
index d3cc0e6..84be16d 100644
--- a/invesalius/reader/dicom.py
+++ b/invesalius/reader/dicom.py
@@ -1224,7 +1224,14 @@ class Parser():
             return ""
 
         if (data):
-            return str(data)
+            name = data.strip()
+            encoding = self.GetEncoding()
+            try:
+                # Returns a unicode decoded in the own dicom encoding
+                return name.decode(encoding, 'replace')
+            except(UnicodeEncodeError):
+                return name
+
         return ""
 
     def GetPatientAge(self):
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