1 files changed, 0 insertions, 6 deletions

diff --git a/bitbake/lib/toaster/toastergui/tests.py b/bitbake/lib/toaster/toastergui/tests.py
index 31f1431ea3..2cd2c7d163 100644
--- a/bitbake/lib/toaster/toastergui/tests.py
+++ b/bitbake/lib/toaster/toastergui/tests.py
@@ -382,12 +382,6 @@ class ViewTests(TestCase):
             else:
                 ret = BeautifulSoup(td).text
 
-            # We change the td into ascii as a way to remove characters
-            # such as \xa0 (non break space) which mess with the ordering
-            # comparisons
-            ret.strip().encode('ascii',
-                               errors='replace').replace('?', ' ')
-            # Case where the td is empty
             if len(ret):
                 return "0"
             else: