#!/usr/bin/env python
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# Copyright (C) 2004 Gustavo Sverzut Barbieri
#
# This program is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify
# it under the terms of the GNU General Public License as published by
# the Free Software Foundation; either version 2 of the License, or
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# This program is distributed in the hope that it will be useful, but
# WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of MER-
# CHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE. See the GNU General
# Public License for more details.
# -----------------------------------------------------------------------
#
# This code is part of the pytvgrab project:
#    http://pytvgrab.sourceforge.net
#
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# Subversion Information, do not edit
#
# $Rev: 291 $
# $LastChangedDate: 2004-11-21 23:37:37 +1100 (Sun, 21 Nov 2004) $
# $LastChangedRevision: 291 $
# $LastChangedBy: ottrey $
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# $Log: $
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import locale
LC_ALL = locale.setlocale(locale.LC_ALL, '')
encoding = None

if LC_ALL == 'C':
  encoding = 'latin-1'
else:
  try:
    encoding = LC_ALL.split('.')[1]
    # The encoding assignment WILL fail when LC_ALL="Swedish_Sweden.1252"
    # There is no "1252" encoding in python
    if encoding == "1252":
      encoding = "windows.1252"
    # just to be sure, test if if actually works:
    unicode("test",encoding).encode(encoding)
  except:
    encoding = 'latin-1'

if not encoding:
  encoding = 'latin-1'


def toprint( msg ):
  """Fix message encoding to print."""
  if isinstance( msg, str ):
    return msg
  elif isinstance( msg, unicode ):
    # If there's an encoding error, just replace non-converted chars with '?'
    msg = msg.encode( encoding, "replace" )
  else:
    # When an object is sent in (Tag) it will probably contain unicode
    # So it will first to be converted to a unicode string, then
    # encoded to str
    msg = unicode(msg).encode( encoding, "replace" )
  return msg
# toprint