From fd4bc645875048f88539a7bc586263a4109155c2 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Tanner Collin <git@tannercollin.com>
Date: Sun, 28 Sep 2025 17:17:01 -0600
Subject: [PATCH] fix: Encode message to UTF-8 for sign compatibility

Co-authored-by: aider (gemini/gemini-2.5-pro) <aider@aider.chat>
---
 protosign.py | 2 +-
 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/protosign.py b/protosign.py
index d95fea4..9d1302f 100644
--- a/protosign.py
+++ b/protosign.py
@@ -44,7 +44,7 @@ def poll_and_display():
 
             if message and message != last_message:
                 print "Updating sign with new message: " + message
-                send_sign(message)
+                send_sign(message.encode('utf-8'))
                 last_message = message
 
         except (urllib2.URLError, ValueError, KeyError) as e: