From 5dcdcf4e42327f0b8f8def18b94914ff5e9d4a18 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Sidhartha Premkumar <spremkum@redhat.com>
Date: Nov 25 2019 17:28:35 +0000
Subject: Encode all content from upstream descriptions


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diff --git a/sync2jira/downstream.py b/sync2jira/downstream.py
index 796e831..6f64a67 100644
--- a/sync2jira/downstream.py
+++ b/sync2jira/downstream.py
@@ -1085,7 +1085,7 @@ def _update_description(existing, issue):
         )
 
     # Now we can update the JIRA issue if we need to
-    if new_description != existing.fields.description:
+    if new_description.replace(' ', '') != existing.fields.description.replace(' ', ''):
         # This logging is temporary and will be used to debug an
         # issue regarding phantom updates
         # Get the diff between new_description and existing
diff --git a/sync2jira/intermediary.py b/sync2jira/intermediary.py
index 5da6854..334839a 100644
--- a/sync2jira/intermediary.py
+++ b/sync2jira/intermediary.py
@@ -32,7 +32,7 @@ class Issue(object):
         self.tags = tags
         self.fixVersion = fixVersion
         self.priority = priority
-        self.content = content
+        self.content = content.encode('ascii', errors='replace').decode('ascii')
         self.reporter = reporter
         self.assignee = assignee
         self.status = status