From 276cba1103b60dbd62de721d398d9a93c75bdea4 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Roland Dobai <dobai.roland@gmail.com>
Date: Thu, 30 Aug 2018 13:33:11 +0200
Subject: [PATCH] idf_monitor: Fix Unicode decoding on Windows

Closes https://github.com/espressif/esp-idf/issues/2348
---
 tools/idf_monitor.py | 6 ++++--
 1 file changed, 4 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)

diff --git a/tools/idf_monitor.py b/tools/idf_monitor.py
index 38bfce980..f9eb2d1bd 100755
--- a/tools/idf_monitor.py
+++ b/tools/idf_monitor.py
@@ -733,8 +733,10 @@ if os.name == 'nt':
                 pass
 
         def write(self, data):
-            if type(data) is not bytes:
-                data = data.encode('latin-1')
+            if isinstance(data, bytes):
+                data = bytearray(data)
+            else:
+                data = bytearray(data, 'utf-8')
             for b in data:
                 b = bytes([b])
                 l = len(self.matched)