1 files changed, 3 insertions, 2 deletions
diff --git a/wkhtmltopdf/utils.py b/wkhtmltopdf/utils.py
index 87b214c..3d125bb 100644
--- a/wkhtmltopdf/utils.py
+++ b/wkhtmltopdf/utils.py
@@ -98,10 +98,11 @@ def wkhtmltopdf(pages, output=None, **kwargs):
                          list(pages),
                          [output]))
     ck_kwargs = {'env': env}
+    # Handling of fileno() attr. based on https://github.com/GrahamDumpleton/mod_wsgi/issues/85
     try:
         i = sys.stderr.fileno()
         ck_kwargs['stderr'] = sys.stderr
-    except AttributeError:
+    except (AttributeError, IOError):
         # can't call fileno() on mod_wsgi stderr object
         pass
 
@@ -185,7 +186,7 @@ def http_quote(string):
     if isinstance(string, six.text_type):
         try:
             import unidecode
-            string = unidecode.unidecode(string)
+            string = bytes(unidecode.unidecode(string), 'ascii')
         except ImportError:
             string = string.encode('ascii', 'replace')
     # Wrap in double-quotes for ; , and the like