createrepo/utils.py

 createrepo/utils.py |   35 -----------------------------------
 1 file changed, 35 deletions(-)

New commits:
commit b02a068c130dd051c3ce3f9545b7eb64fe0f83af
Author: Seth Vidal <[email protected]>
Date:   Mon Sep 15 16:43:56 2008 -0400

    remove unused utf8String function from utils - move most of it into yum.misc

diff --git a/createrepo/utils.py b/createrepo/utils.py
index 3dd349b..1b0d015 100644
--- a/createrepo/utils.py
+++ b/createrepo/utils.py
@@ -73,41 +73,6 @@ def returnFD(filename):
         raise MDError, "Error opening file"
     return fdno
 
-def utf8String(string):
-    """hands back a unicoded string"""
-    if string is None:
-        return ''
-    elif isinstance(string, unicode):    
-        return string
-    du = False
-    try:
-        x = unicode(string, 'ascii')
-        du = True
-    except UnicodeError:
-        encodings = ['utf-8', 'iso-8859-1', 'iso-8859-15', 'iso-8859-2']
-        for enc in encodings:
-            try:
-                x = unicode(string, enc)
-            except UnicodeError:
-                pass
-            else:
-                if x.encode(enc) == string:
-                    return x.encode('utf-8')
-    newstring = ''
-    # Kill bytes (or libxml will die) not in the small byte portion of:
-    #  http://www.w3.org/TR/REC-xml/#NT-Char
-    # we allow high bytes, if it passed the utf8 check above. Eg.
-    # good chars = #x9 | #xA | #xD | [#x20-...]
-    bad_small_bytes = range(0, 8) + [11, 12] + range(14, 32)
-    for char in string:
-        if ord(char) in bad_small_bytes:
-            pass # Just ignore these bytes...
-        elif not du and ord(char) > 127:
-            newstring = newstring + '?'
-        else:
-            newstring = newstring + char
-    return newstring
-
 def checkAndMakeDir(dir):
     """
      check out the dir and make it, if possible, return 1 if done, else return 0