From ba39d450e7ac354955686f0d43accd64c3830eb7 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Ryan Pessa <ryan@essential-elements.net>
Date: Sat, 21 Mar 2015 21:07:23 -0500
Subject: [PATCH] force sdl2 clipboard encoding to utf8

---
 kivy/core/clipboard/clipboard_sdl2.py | 7 +++++--
 1 file changed, 5 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)

diff --git a/kivy/core/clipboard/clipboard_sdl2.py b/kivy/core/clipboard/clipboard_sdl2.py
index c1705fa3d..aabaa1ed4 100644
--- a/kivy/core/clipboard/clipboard_sdl2.py
+++ b/kivy/core/clipboard/clipboard_sdl2.py
@@ -22,8 +22,11 @@ class ClipboardSDL2(ClipboardBase):
     def get(self, mimetype):
         return _get_text() if _has_text() else ''
 
-    def put(self, data='', mimetype='text/plain'):
-        data = data.encode('utf-8')
+    def _ensure_clipboard(self):
+        super(ClipboardSDL2, self)._ensure_clipboard()
+        self._encoding = 'utf8'
+
+    def put(self, data=b'', mimetype='text/plain'):
         _set_text(data)
 
     def get_types(self):