Changeset 3392 for pykota/branches/1.26_fixes/pykota/tool.py

Timestamp:

07/10/08 21:29:30 (16 years ago)

Author:

jerome

Message:

Works around chardet being unable to detect user charset in some cases.

Files:

• pykota/branches/1.26_fixes/pykota/tool.py (modified) (1 diff)

pykota/branches/1.26_fixes/pykota/tool.py

@@ -46 +46 @@
     def detectCharset(text) :
         """Fakes a charset detection if the chardet module is not installed."""
-        return "ISO-8859-15"
+        return "UTF-8"
 else :    
     def detectCharset(text) :
         """Uses the chardet module to workaround CUPS lying to us."""
-        return chardet.detect(text)["encoding"]
+        return chardet.detect(text)["encoding"] or "UTF-8"
 
 from pykota import config, storage, logger