From 58f75abaca7fc6e3107783d3cccb9a678c88bd46 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Matthew Honnibal <honnibal@gmail.com>
Date: Mon, 5 Jan 2015 05:53:08 +1100
Subject: [PATCH] * Fix unicode error in orth

---
 spacy/orth.py | 4 ++--
 1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)

diff --git a/spacy/orth.py b/spacy/orth.py
index 2400b38a6..7023f95c5 100644
--- a/spacy/orth.py
+++ b/spacy/orth.py
@@ -155,5 +155,5 @@ def word_shape(string):
 def asciied(string):
     ascii_string = unidecode(string)
     if not ascii_string:
-        return '???'
-    return ascii_string.decode('ascii')
+        return b'???'
+    return ascii_string