From e1e4f9c9ddfe5fc610615c0848a97b02b498ee97 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Paul Davis <paul@linuxaudiosystems.com>
Date: Mon, 29 Sep 2014 21:37:55 -0400
Subject: [PATCH] revert stupid change that breaks python3 and was probably
 related to other python-related issues fixed when support for python3 was
 added to our wscript files

---
 wscript | 8 ++------
 1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 6 deletions(-)

diff --git a/wscript b/wscript
index ee00359ba4..1a300c8f06 100644
--- a/wscript
+++ b/wscript
@@ -43,12 +43,8 @@ else:
     MICRO = '0'
 
 V = MAJOR + '.' + MINOR + '.' + MICRO
-#
-# it is important that VERSION *not* be unicode string
-# because if it is, it breaks waf somehow.
-#
-VERSION = V.encode ('ascii', 'ignore')
-PROGRAM_VERSION = MAJOR.encode ('ascii', 'ignore')
+VERSION = V
+PROGRAM_VERSION = MAJOR
 
 # Mandatory variables
 top = '.'