From f5d7db83f91af4a1100ab89bbc98e31e42303b97 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Andrea <a.stirpe@onestein.nl>
Date: Mon, 16 Nov 2020 12:03:51 +0100
Subject: [PATCH] [FIX] Handle byte encoded string from ldap

---
 partner_firstname/models/res_partner.py | 5 +++++
 1 file changed, 5 insertions(+)

diff --git a/partner_firstname/models/res_partner.py b/partner_firstname/models/res_partner.py
index db677410d..0a62e0b61 100644
--- a/partner_firstname/models/res_partner.py
+++ b/partner_firstname/models/res_partner.py
@@ -127,6 +127,11 @@ class ResPartner(models.Model):
 
         Removes leading, trailing and duplicated whitespace.
         """
+        if isinstance(name, bytes):
+            # With users coming from LDAP, name can be a byte encoded string.
+            # This happens with FreeIPA for instance.
+            name = name.decode("utf-8")
+
         try:
             name = " ".join(name.split()) if name else name
         except UnicodeDecodeError: