From bf80b6c3ba51173655be6e175dc1f26a90eb60fd Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Christian Herdtweck <christian.herdtweck@intra2net.com>
Date: Thu, 28 Apr 2016 15:18:53 +0200
Subject: [PATCH] fixed bug in json2ascii (was producing too much output due to wrong test)

---
 oletools/olevba.py | 3 ++-
 1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/oletools/olevba.py b/oletools/olevba.py
index 257e071..1451102 100755
--- a/oletools/olevba.py
+++ b/oletools/olevba.py
@@ -1780,8 +1780,9 @@ def json2ascii(json_obj, encoding='utf8', errors='replace'):
     elif isinstance(json_obj, (bool, int, float)):
         pass
     elif isinstance(json_obj, str):
+        # de-code and re-encode
         dencoded = json_obj.decode(encoding, errors).encode(encoding, errors)
-        if dencoded != str:
+        if dencoded != json_obj:
             log.info('json2ascii: replaced: {0} (len {1})'
                      .format(json_obj, len(json_obj)))
             log.info('json2ascii:     with: {0} (len {1})'
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