Gnumed.timelinelib.general.encodings

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# Source Code for Module Gnumed.timelinelib.general.encodings

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     3  # Copyright (C) 2009, 2010, 2011, 2012, 2013, 2014, 2015, 2016, 2017, 2018  Rickard Lindberg, Roger Lindberg
     4  #
     5  # This file is part of Timeline.
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    21  import sys
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    24 -def to_unicode(string_data):
    25      """
    26      Tru to encode a string into unicode.
    27      """
    28      if isinstance(string_data, unicode):
    29          return(string_data)
    30      else:
    31          for encoding in [sys.getdefaultencoding(), "utf-8", "cp1250", "cp850"]:
    32              try:
    33                  return unicode(string_data, encoding)
    34              except:
    35                  pass
    36          return string_data
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