From bce053afc3a7199e7b10de710ef1506700953061 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: squidfunk <martin.donath@squidfunk.com>
Date: Tue, 13 May 2025 12:48:52 +0200
Subject: [PATCH] Fixed social plugin crashing for CairoSVG >= 2.8

Co-authored-by: kamilkrzyskow <34622465+kamilkrzyskow@users.noreply.github.com>
---
 material/plugins/social/plugin.py | 1 +
 src/plugins/social/plugin.py      | 1 +
 2 files changed, 2 insertions(+)

diff --git a/material/plugins/social/plugin.py b/material/plugins/social/plugin.py
index 187ce05a4..3be8978c9 100644
--- a/material/plugins/social/plugin.py
+++ b/material/plugins/social/plugin.py
@@ -443,6 +443,7 @@ class SocialPlugin(BasePlugin[SocialConfig]):
         # Fill with color, if given
         if fill:
             data = data.replace("<svg", f"<svg fill=\"{fill}\"")
+            data = data.encode("utf-8")
 
         # Convert to PNG and return image
         svg2png(bytestring = data, write_to = file, scale = 10)
diff --git a/src/plugins/social/plugin.py b/src/plugins/social/plugin.py
index 187ce05a4..3be8978c9 100644
--- a/src/plugins/social/plugin.py
+++ b/src/plugins/social/plugin.py
@@ -443,6 +443,7 @@ class SocialPlugin(BasePlugin[SocialConfig]):
         # Fill with color, if given
         if fill:
             data = data.replace("<svg", f"<svg fill=\"{fill}\"")
+            data = data.encode("utf-8")
 
         # Convert to PNG and return image
         svg2png(bytestring = data, write_to = file, scale = 10)