From e8e48a2cc4fb6976819dcbea21e0470c8f9cb81c Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: jokob-sk <jokob-sk@gmail.com>
Date: Thu, 26 Jun 2025 07:25:10 +1000
Subject: [PATCH] integer causing normalization issue in MQTT #1102

---
 server/helper.py | 2 ++
 1 file changed, 2 insertions(+)

diff --git a/server/helper.py b/server/helper.py
index 0f729f4b..ca7b22bb 100755
--- a/server/helper.py
+++ b/server/helper.py
@@ -495,6 +495,8 @@ def sanitize_SQL_input(val):
 # Function to normalize the string and remove diacritics
 def normalize_string(text):
     # Normalize the text to 'NFD' to separate base characters and diacritics
+    if not isinstance(text, str):
+        text = str(text)
     normalized_text = unicodedata.normalize('NFD', text)
     # Filter out diacritics and unwanted characters
     return ''.join(c for c in normalized_text if unicodedata.category(c) != 'Mn')