src/cm/utils/string.py
author rbernard
Fri, 05 Feb 2010 18:43:58 +0100
changeset 154 8cb89c153140
parent 119 5e8dda1b7631
permissions -rw-r--r--
bug fix: removed \r in textversion's content because of a comment position bug in pre_edit. Added a save function to TextVersionManager to do so. Also removed cleaning \r before computing diffs because it should not be necessary anymore.

import chardet

def to_unicode(input):
    if type(input) == str:
        res = None
        for encoding in [chardet.detect(input)['encoding'], 'utf8', 'latin1']:
            try:
                res = unicode(input, encoding)
                break;
            except UnicodeDecodeError:
                pass
        if not res:
            raise Exception('UnicodeDecodeError: could not decode')
        return res
    return input