diff -r 8cb89c153140 -r f436e2fef076 src/cm/utils/string.py
--- a/src/cm/utils/string.py	Fri Feb 05 18:43:58 2010 +0100
+++ /dev/null	Thu Jan 01 00:00:00 1970 +0000
@@ -1,15 +0,0 @@
-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
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