From 024b94d5822b1968113f2306587fe521c2c51b81 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: VictorFabreF <victorfabre@me.com>
Date: Tue, 19 Dec 2017 12:56:01 -0200
Subject: [PATCH] Fixes #1615

---
 sapl/utils.py | 4 ++--
 1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)

diff --git a/sapl/utils.py b/sapl/utils.py
index 6e690eb5e..3ef2c05eb 100644
--- a/sapl/utils.py
+++ b/sapl/utils.py
@@ -236,9 +236,9 @@ def create_barcode(value):
     '''
     from base64 import b64encode
     from reportlab.graphics.barcode import createBarcodeDrawing
-
+    value_bytes = bytes(value, "ascii")
     barcode = createBarcodeDrawing('Code128',
-                                   value=value,
+                                   value=value_bytes,
                                    barWidth=170,
                                    height=50,
                                    fontSize=2,