Improved Unicode, Dammit's behavior when you give it Unicode to begin with.

1 files changed, 4 insertions, 2 deletions

diff --git a/bs4/dammit.py b/bs4/dammit.py
index 8897063..2b681e8 100644
--- a/bs4/dammit.py
+++ b/bs4/dammit.py
@@ -167,15 +167,17 @@ class UnicodeDammit:
     def __init__(self, markup, override_encodings=[],
                  smart_quotes_to=None, isHTML=False):
         self.declared_html_encoding = None
-        self.markup, document_encoding, sniffed_encoding = \
-                     self._detectEncoding(markup, isHTML)
         self.smart_quotes_to = smart_quotes_to
         self.tried_encodings = []
+
         if markup == '' or isinstance(markup, unicode):
             self.original_encoding = None
             self.unicode_markup = unicode(markup)
             return
 
+        self.markup, document_encoding, sniffed_encoding = \
+                     self._detectEncoding(markup, isHTML)
+
         u = None
         for proposed_encoding in (
             override_encodings + [document_encoding, sniffed_encoding]):