Charset.py

#!/usr/bin/env python
# -*- coding: utf-8 -*-

#Copyright 2010-2011 Mika Bostrom
#This program is free software: you can redistribute it and/or modify
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#
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#In the "official" distribution you can find the license in agpl-3.0.txt.

import L10n
_ = L10n.get_translation()

# Error logging
import sys

# String manipulation
import codecs

# Settings
import Configuration

encoder_to_utf = codecs.lookup('utf-8')
encoder_to_sys = codecs.lookup(Configuration.LOCALE_ENCODING)

# I'm saving a few cycles with this one
not_needed1, not_needed2, not_needed3 = False, False, False
if Configuration.LOCALE_ENCODING == 'UTF8':
    not_needed1, not_needed2, not_needed3 = True, True, True

def to_utf8(s):
    if not_needed1: return s

    try:
        #(_out, _len) = encoder_to_utf.encode(s)
        _out = unicode(s, Configuration.LOCALE_ENCODING).encode('utf-8')
        return _out
    except UnicodeDecodeError:
        sys.stderr.write(_('Could not convert: "%s"') % (s+"\n"))
        raise
    except UnicodeEncodeError:
        sys.stderr.write(_('Could not encode: "%s"') % (s+"\n"))
        raise
    except TypeError: # TypeError is raised when we give unicode() an already encoded string
        return s

def to_db_utf8(s):
    if not_needed2: return s

    try:
        (_out, _len) = encoder_to_utf.encode(unicode(s))
        return _out
    except UnicodeDecodeError:
        sys.stderr.write(_('Could not convert: "%s"') % (s+"\n"))
        raise
    except UnicodeEncodeError:
        sys.stderr.write(_('Could not encode: "%s"') % (s+"\n"))
        raise

def to_gui(s):
    if not_needed3: return s

    try:
        # we usually don't want to use 'replace' but this is only for displaying
        # in the gui so it doesn't matter if names are missing an accent or two
        (_out, _len) = encoder_to_sys.encode(s, 'replace')
        return _out
    except UnicodeDecodeError:
        sys.stderr.write(_('Could not convert: "%s"') % (s+"\n"))
        raise
    except UnicodeEncodeError:
        sys.stderr.write(_('Could not encode: "%s"') % (s+"\n"))
        raise