From a0fe77254c0f8e87f2ce0a17d85fa7c7ab97ebf2 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Anthony Scopatz <scopatz@gmail.com>
Date: Fri, 15 Jan 2016 17:35:12 -0500
Subject: [PATCH] capturing redirection fix

---
 CHANGELOG.rst      | 2 ++
 xonsh/built_ins.py | 2 +-
 2 files changed, 3 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/CHANGELOG.rst b/CHANGELOG.rst
index 60ec1fb3e..7f2eec0c3 100644
--- a/CHANGELOG.rst
+++ b/CHANGELOG.rst
@@ -47,6 +47,8 @@ None
 * Fixed issue with job management if a TTY existed but was not controlled
   by the process, posix only.
 * Jupyter kernel no longer times out when using foreign shells on startup.
+* Capturing redirections, e.g. ``$(echo hello > f.txt)``, no longer fails
+  with a decoding error.
 
 **Security:**
 
diff --git a/xonsh/built_ins.py b/xonsh/built_ins.py
index 2696ebbee..e53126897 100644
--- a/xonsh/built_ins.py
+++ b/xonsh/built_ins.py
@@ -625,7 +625,7 @@ def run_subproc(cmds, captured=True):
     hist.last_cmd_rtn = prev_proc.returncode
     if write_target is None:
         # get output
-        output = ''
+        output = b''
         if prev_proc.stdout not in (None, sys.stdout):
             output = prev_proc.stdout.read()
         if captured: