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  • Committer: Martin Packman
  • Date: 2011-12-02 13:36:43 UTC
  • mto: This revision was merged to the branch mainline in revision 6344.
  • Revision ID: martin.packman@canonical.com-20111202133643-0j1f9botvq8d61ar
Add get_message_encoding() for use in decoding system messages

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    return get_terminal_encoding()
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_message_encoding = None
 
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def get_message_encoding():
 
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    """Return the encoding used for system messages"""
 
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    global _message_encoding
 
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    if _message_encoding is None:
 
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        if os.name == "posix":
 
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            import locale
 
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            # This is a process-global setting that can change, but should in
 
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            # general just get set once at process startup then be constant.
 
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            _message_encoding = locale.getlocale(locale.LC_MESSAGES)[1]
 
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            if _message_encoding is None:
 
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                _message_encoding = "ascii"
 
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        else:
 
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            # On windows want the result of GetACP() which this boils down to.
 
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            _message_encoding = get_user_encoding()
 
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    return _message_encoding
 
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def get_host_name():
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    """Return the current unicode host name.
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