From 6cee607d7cc01354341d2a1ddfb3ea6dd26bb7c0 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Emery Berger <emerydb@amazon.com>
Date: Thu, 17 Oct 2024 12:56:31 -0400
Subject: [PATCH] Fixes https://github.com/plasma-umass/scalene/issues/869

---
 src/include/traceconfig.hpp | 2 +-
 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/src/include/traceconfig.hpp b/src/include/traceconfig.hpp
index 5310bb8a6..2ba1e9294 100644
--- a/src/include/traceconfig.hpp
+++ b/src/include/traceconfig.hpp
@@ -27,7 +27,7 @@ class TraceConfig {
       auto s = PyBytes_AsString(unic);
       items.push_back(s);
     }
-    scalene_base_path = PyBytes_AsString(PyUnicode_AsASCIIString(base_path));
+    scalene_base_path = PyBytes_AsString(PyUnicode_AsEncodedString(base_path, "utf-8", "strict"));
   }
 
   bool should_trace(char* filename) {