Changeset 3173 for pykota/trunk/pykota/tool.py

Timestamp:

04/23/07 14:11:57 (17 years ago)

Author:

jerome

Message:

Dirty hack of the day (year ?).

Files:

• pykota/trunk/pykota/tool.py (modified) (1 diff)

pykota/trunk/pykota/tool.py

@@ -140 +140 @@
         except locale.Error :    
             self.charset = sys.getfilesystemencoding()
+        
+        # Dirty hack : if the charset is ASCII, we can safely use UTF-8 instead
+        # This has the advantage of allowing transparent support for recent
+        # versions of CUPS which (en-)force charset to UTF-8 when printing.
+        # This should be needed only when printing, but is probably (?) safe
+        # to do when using interactive commands.
+        if self.charset.upper() in ('ASCII', 'ANSI_X3.4-1968') :
+            self.charset = "UTF-8"
         
         # translation stuff