From dd60594f41940d7c298b16965b4d51d853dc6dd6 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Matthew Honnibal <honnibal@gmail.com>
Date: Mon, 20 Jul 2015 13:52:56 +0200
Subject: [PATCH] * Fix double encoding error in strings.pyx

---
 spacy/strings.pyx | 2 +-
 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/spacy/strings.pyx b/spacy/strings.pyx
index ccc186e5f..f69a144ee 100644
--- a/spacy/strings.pyx
+++ b/spacy/strings.pyx
@@ -123,7 +123,7 @@ cdef class StringStore:
             for i in range(1, self.size):
                 string = &self.c[i]
                 py_string = _decode(string)
-                file_.write(py_string.decode('utf8'))
+                file_.write(py_string)
                 if (i+1) != self.size:
                     file_.write(SEPARATOR)