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  • Committer: Patch Queue Manager
  • Date: 2011-12-05 12:23:58 UTC
  • mfrom: (6336.3.3 get_message_encoding)
  • Revision ID: pqm@pqm.ubuntu.com-20111205122358-4vml1qhofl1ll84q
(gz) Add get_message_encoding() for reading encoding name from LC_MESSAGE
 setting (Martin Packman)

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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 messages
 
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    While the message encoding is a general setting it should usually only be
 
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    needed for decoding system error strings such as from OSError instances.
 
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    """
 
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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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        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 or "ascii"
 
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def get_host_name():
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    """Return the current unicode host name.
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