[translate] Fix unicode in translate.py

web returns a bytestring, we needed a unicodestring
maxpowa · Apr 30, 2014 · 83f36dd · 83f36dd
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diff --git a/translate.py b/translate.py
@@ -58,8 +58,10 @@ def translate(text, in_lang='auto', out_lang='en'):
     )
     url = "http://translate.google.com/translate_a/t?{query}".format(query=query_string)
     result = web.get(url, timeout=40, headers=headers)
-    if sys.version_info.major>=3:
+    if sys.version_info.major >= 3:
         result = result.decode()
+    elif isinstance(result, str):
+        result = result.decode('utf-8')
 
     while ',,' in result:
         result = result.replace(',,', ',null,')