path: root/libbe/encoding.py

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# Copyright (C) 2008-2009 Gianluca Montecchi <gian@grys.it>
#                         W. Trevor King <wking@drexel.edu>
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"""
Support input/output/filesystem encodings (e.g. UTF-8).
"""

import codecs
import locale
import sys

import libbe
if libbe.TESTING == True:
    import doctest


ENCODING = None # override get_encoding() output by setting this

def get_encoding():
    """
    Guess a useful input/output/filesystem encoding...  Maybe we need
    seperate encodings for input/output and filesystem?  Hmm...
    """
    if ENCODING != None:
        return ENCODING
    encoding = locale.getpreferredencoding() or sys.getdefaultencoding()
    if sys.platform != 'win32' or sys.version_info[:2] > (2, 3):
        encoding = locale.getlocale(locale.LC_TIME)[1] or encoding
        # Python 2.3 on windows doesn't know about 'XYZ' alias for 'cpXYZ'
    return encoding

def known_encoding(encoding):
    """
    >>> known_encoding("highly-unlikely-encoding")
    False
    >>> known_encoding(get_encoding())
    True
    """
    try:
        codecs.lookup(encoding)
        return True
    except LookupError:
        return False

def set_IO_stream_encodings(encoding):
    sys.stdin = codecs.getreader(encoding)(sys.__stdin__)
    sys.stdout = codecs.getwriter(encoding)(sys.__stdout__)
    sys.stderr = codecs.getwriter(encoding)(sys.__stderr__)

if libbe.TESTING == True:
    suite = doctest.DocTestSuite()