Attempt to use iconv, but if it fails, fall back to using our own translit function (#1536)

1 files changed, 9 insertions, 1 deletions

diff --git a/pykolab/utils.py b/pykolab/utils.py
index 7f56c29..c10bbb2 100644
--- a/pykolab/utils.py
+++ b/pykolab/utils.py
@@ -415,10 +415,18 @@ def translate(mystring, locale_name='en_US'):
     log.debug(_("Executing '%s | %s'") % (r"%s" % (mystring), ' '.join(command)), level=8)
     process = subprocess.Popen(command, stdout=subprocess.PIPE, stdin=subprocess.PIPE, stderr=subprocess.PIPE, env={'LANG': locale.normalize(locale_name)})
 
-    print >> process.stdin, r"%s" % mystring
+    try:
+        print >> process.stdin, r"%s" % mystring
+    except UnicodeEncodeError, errmsg:
+        pass
 
     result = process.communicate()[0].strip()
 
+    if '?' in result or (result == '' and not mystring == ''):
+        log.warning(_("Could not translate %s using locale %s") % (mystring, locale_name))
+        from pykolab import translit
+        result = translit.transliterate(mystring, locale_name)
+
     return result
 
 def true_or_false(val):