From 565146ac3dc532ba96be6cc95a059ec94a239f0c Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Adam Coddington <me@adamcoddington.net>
Date: Fri, 11 Oct 2013 18:29:15 -0700
Subject: [PATCH] Encode to utf-8 before hashing.

---
 pyicloud/base.py | 9 +++++++--
 1 file changed, 7 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)

diff --git a/pyicloud/base.py b/pyicloud/base.py
index 2e3b75a..b19ba4e 100644
--- a/pyicloud/base.py
+++ b/pyicloud/base.py
@@ -64,8 +64,13 @@ class PyiCloudService(object):
         if 'dsInfo' in resp:
             dsid = resp['dsInfo']['dsid']
             self.params.update({'dsid': dsid})
-        instance = resp.get('instance', uuid.uuid4().hex)
-        sha = hashlib.sha1(self.user.get('apple_id') + instance)
+        instance = resp.get(
+            'instance',
+            uuid.uuid4().hex.encode('utf-8')
+        )
+        sha = hashlib.sha1(
+            self.user.get('apple_id').encode('utf-8') + instance
+        )
         self.params.update({'id': sha.hexdigest().upper()})
 
     def authenticate(self):