1 files changed, 4 insertions, 1 deletions
diff --git a/readyaml.py b/readyaml.py
index 2ef9a3b..3e5ba87 100755
--- a/readyaml.py
+++ b/readyaml.py
@@ -45,8 +45,11 @@ def readyaml(db, stream):
             db.commit()
             return
 
+        # iso-8859-1 is used as a safe representation of binary data within
+        # utf-8.
+        filename = buffer(entry["name"].encode("iso-8859-1"))
         cur.execute("INSERT INTO content (pid, filename, size) VALUES (?, ?, ?);",
-                    (pid, entry["name"], entry["size"]))
+                    (pid, filename, entry["size"]))
         cid = cur.lastrowid
         cur.executemany("INSERT INTO hash (cid, fid, hash) VALUES (?, ?, ?);",
                         ((cid, funcmapping[func], hexhash)