Fix encoding issue, add .gitignore and readme

1 files changed, 2 insertions, 2 deletions

diff --git a/wikiquery b/wikiquery
index ecfd0aa..ffbd1c7 100755
--- a/wikiquery
+++ b/wikiquery
@@ -13,11 +13,11 @@ def stringify(o):
 	if isinstance(o, list):
 		output = []
 		for i, item in enumerate(o, 1):
-			output.append("%s: %s" % (i, item.encode("utf-8", "replace")))
+			output.append("%s: %s" % (i, item))
 
 		return ' %s' % ', '.join(output)
 	else:
-		return o.encode("utf-8", "replace")
+		return o;
 
 def display(o):
 	print (stringify(o))