1 files changed, 3 insertions, 3 deletions
diff --git a/setuptools/unicode_utils.py b/setuptools/unicode_utils.py
index d2de941a..f028589e 100644
--- a/setuptools/unicode_utils.py
+++ b/setuptools/unicode_utils.py
@@ -1,11 +1,11 @@
 import unicodedata
 import sys
-from setuptools.compat import unicode as decoded_string
 
+import six
 
 # HFS Plus uses decomposed UTF-8
 def decompose(path):
-    if isinstance(path, decoded_string):
+    if isinstance(path, six.text_type):
         return unicodedata.normalize('NFD', path)
     try:
         path = path.decode('utf-8')
@@ -23,7 +23,7 @@ def filesys_decode(path):
     """
 
     fs_enc = sys.getfilesystemencoding()
-    if isinstance(path, decoded_string):
+    if isinstance(path, six.text_type):
         return path
 
     for enc in (fs_enc, "utf-8"):