On Fri, May 22, 2009 at 06:36:39PM +0200, Adeodato Simó wrote:
> UDD just has the descriptions from Packages.gz, which supposedly are in
> UTF-8. If your destination (a file, terminal, whatever) should be
> receiving UTF-8, you can just pass them unmodified, eg.:
>
> for row in curs.fetchall():
> print "%s: %s (%s)\n%s\n" % (pkg, row[0], row[2], row[1])
>
> That works for me.
Yes, this actually works fine.
> If, for some reason, you need unicode() and not str() objects, then you
> should specify that the string is in UTF-8, otherwise it will default to
> ASCII:
>
> for row in curs.fetchall():
> string = unicode(row[1], 'utf-8')
Ahh, that seems to be the solution I wanted. And yes, I need
unicode because I'm actually using
from genshi import Markup
string = Markup(row[1])
and I can confirm that
string = Markup(unicode(row[1], 'utf-8'))
works.
> So, your test program is not of much help. If you're still stuck, you
> should probably say what are you really trying to do, with details. But
> I don't think it's going to be a problem in UDD.
>
> P.S.: If doing `unicode(row[1], 'utf-8')` raises an exception, that
> would be because a package contains non-UTF8 in a description. Your
> program should be robust against that, and you can do:
> ...
Yes, I'm doing this from past experiences when parsing Packages
files directly - but thanks for the hint anyway.
Thank you very much for the help
Andreas.
[1] http://wiki.debian.org/UltimateDebianDatabase
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