From 2dbdf9a72f28f488746b598b9914ae008b03b455 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Martin Diehl <m.diehl@mpie.de>
Date: Sun, 13 Mar 2016 18:21:25 +0100
Subject: [PATCH 1/2] all symbols need to be representable in unicode

---
 lib/damask/util.py | 3 ++-
 1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/lib/damask/util.py b/lib/damask/util.py
index 77bc30403..9ce42759a 100644
--- a/lib/damask/util.py
+++ b/lib/damask/util.py
@@ -104,7 +104,8 @@ class extendableOption(Option):
 class backgroundMessage(threading.Thread):
   """reporting with animation to indicate progress"""
 
-  choices = {'bounce':   ['_','o','O','°','¯','¯','°','O','o',],
+  choices = {'bounce':   ['_',      'o',      'O',      u'\u00B0',
+                          u'\u203e',u'\u203e',u'\u00B0','O','o','_'],
              'circle':   [u'\u25f4',u'\u25f5',u'\u25f6',u'\u25f7'],
              'hexagon':  [u'\u2b22',u'\u2b23'],
              'square':   [u'\u2596',u'\u2598',u'\u259d',u'\u2597'],

From 80d2bdbfde1c55fbf3332eeedfd8565efa19de65 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Test User <damask_user@mpie.de>
Date: Mon, 14 Mar 2016 04:12:59 +0100
Subject: [PATCH 2/2] updated version information after successful test of
 v2.0.0-18-g2dbdf9a

---
 VERSION | 2 +-
 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/VERSION b/VERSION
index c02195acf..6a337695e 100644
--- a/VERSION
+++ b/VERSION
@@ -1 +1 @@
-v2.0.0-16-g344c6f6
+v2.0.0-18-g2dbdf9a