From 1fdfed13da2e9a185178aaadb722afaefbda881f Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Griatch <griatch@gmail.com>
Date: Sat, 13 Oct 2018 19:56:46 +0200
Subject: [PATCH] Fix webclient communication

---
 evennia/server/portal/webclient.py | 2 +-
 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/evennia/server/portal/webclient.py b/evennia/server/portal/webclient.py
index cb93896462..0657f1b4fd 100644
--- a/evennia/server/portal/webclient.py
+++ b/evennia/server/portal/webclient.py
@@ -123,7 +123,7 @@ class WebSocketClient(WebSocketServerProtocol, Session):
                              UTF-8 encoded text.
 
         """
-        cmdarray = json.loads(payload)
+        cmdarray = json.loads(str(payload, 'utf-8'))
         if cmdarray:
             self.data_in(**{cmdarray[0]: [cmdarray[1], cmdarray[2]]})