From 535478090401c5aecd13deed183b18c898357bae Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Seth Hillbrand <seth@kipro-pcb.com>
Date: Sun, 21 Feb 2021 11:22:43 -0800
Subject: [PATCH] Fix Linux/Python3 issue with plugins

Strings are not always encoded, so we get exceptions when trying to
double-decode.  Just keep strings as-in in this case
---
 scripting/kicadplugins.i | 7 +++++--
 1 file changed, 5 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)

diff --git a/scripting/kicadplugins.i b/scripting/kicadplugins.i
index 1f7eeb6dc7..f9b8b02125 100644
--- a/scripting/kicadplugins.i
+++ b/scripting/kicadplugins.i
@@ -192,8 +192,11 @@ def LoadPlugins(bundlepath=None, userpath=None):
     bundlepath and userpath are strings utf-8 encoded (compatible "C" strings).
     So convert these utf8 encoding to unicode strings to avoid any encoding issue.
     """
-    bundlepath = bundlepath.decode( 'UTF-8' );
-    userpath = userpath.decode( 'UTF-8' );
+    try:
+        bundlepath = bundlepath.decode( 'UTF-8' );
+        userpath = userpath.decode( 'UTF-8' );
+    except AttributeError:
+        pass
 
     config_path = pcbnew.SETTINGS_MANAGER.GetUserSettingsPath()
     plugin_directories=[]