From b37aea40a7fd092d17b593397acebd94e7b1186c Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: blitzmann <ryan.xgamer99@gmail.com>
Date: Sun, 15 Nov 2015 17:15:39 -0500
Subject: [PATCH] fix exception when setting a unicode fit as booster (should
 hopefully fix all timer-related unicode errors)

---
 utils/timer.py | 2 +-
 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/utils/timer.py b/utils/timer.py
index e852d8603..c1ca87a8b 100644
--- a/utils/timer.py
+++ b/utils/timer.py
@@ -18,7 +18,7 @@ class Timer():
     def checkpoint(self, name=''):
         text = u'Timer - {timer} - {checkpoint} - {last:.2f}ms ({elapsed:.2f}ms elapsed)'.format(
             timer=self.name,
-            checkpoint=name,
+            checkpoint=unicode(name, "utf-8"),
             last=self.last,
             elapsed=self.elapsed
         ).strip()