Allow external override of libbe.encoding.get_encoding().

The previous procmail encoding fix failed, because the becommand
execution checks libbe.encoding.get_encoding() on it's own, and got
the procmail encoding.  This one works.

2 files changed, 7 insertions, 2 deletions

diff --git a/interfaces/email/interactive/be-handle-mail b/interfaces/email/interactive/be-handle-mail
index aa0c96a..42d85ac 100755
--- a/interfaces/email/interactive/be-handle-mail
+++ b/interfaces/email/interactive/be-handle-mail
@@ -46,8 +46,9 @@ _THIS_DIR = os.path.abspath(os.path.dirname(__file__))
 BE_DIR = _THIS_DIR
 LOGPATH = os.path.join(_THIS_DIR, "be-handle-mail.log")
 LOGFILE = None
-#ENCODING = libbe.encoding.get_encoding()
-ENCODING = "utf-8"
+
+libbe.encoding.ENCODING = "utf-8" # force default encoding
+ENCODING = libbe.encoding.get_encoding()
 
 ALLOWED_COMMANDS = ["new", "comment", "list", "show", "help"]
 
diff --git a/libbe/encoding.py b/libbe/encoding.py
index d603602..4af864e 100644
--- a/libbe/encoding.py
+++ b/libbe/encoding.py
@@ -19,11 +19,15 @@ import locale
 import sys
 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