From 49c1f7b234ac5d266515c86e589ea7dd959a1a93 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: tfmoraes <totonixsame@gmail.com>
Date: Mon, 24 Sep 2012 17:04:07 +0000
Subject: [PATCH] FIX: problem with encoding on importing dicom, reported by the user p passant in InVesalius forum

---
 invesalius/reader/dicom.py | 2 ++
 1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 0 deletions(-)

diff --git a/invesalius/reader/dicom.py b/invesalius/reader/dicom.py
index 466e1e7..92f2537 100644
--- a/invesalius/reader/dicom.py
+++ b/invesalius/reader/dicom.py
@@ -1486,6 +1486,8 @@ class Parser():
         try:
             data = self.data_image[str(0x0008)][str(0x1030)]
             if (data):
+                if isinstance(data, unicode):
+                    return data
                 encoding = self.GetEncoding()
                 return data.decode(encoding)
         except(KeyError):
--
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