Index: /trunk/Lib/robofab/objects/objectsFL.py
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--- /trunk/Lib/robofab/objects/objectsFL.py (revision 197)
+++ /trunk/Lib/robofab/objects/objectsFL.py (revision 198)
@@ -940,4 +940,6 @@
 		fileName = '.'.join([fileName, suffix])
 		finalPath = os.path.join(filePath, fileName)
+		if isinstance(finalPath, unicode):
+			finalPath = finalPath.encode("utf-8")
 		# generate is (oddly) an application level method
 		# rather than a font level method. because of this,