From f44703cb8fadbca36dbd783db8b4d557d1ff7e80 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: "(no author)" <(no author)@cd1c1023-2f26-0410-ae45-c471fc1f0318>
Date: Fri, 16 Nov 2007 09:26:36 +0000
Subject: [PATCH] add stronger workaround for badly encoded file types

git-svn-id: http://svn.sabayonlinux.org/projects/entropy/trunk@693 cd1c1023-2f26-0410-ae45-c471fc1f0318
---
 libraries/entropyTools.py | 10 ++++++++--
 1 file changed, 8 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)

diff --git a/libraries/entropyTools.py b/libraries/entropyTools.py
index 8cb077696..84ef21571 100644
--- a/libraries/entropyTools.py
+++ b/libraries/entropyTools.py
@@ -1470,11 +1470,17 @@ def extractPkgData(package, etpBranch = etpConst['branch'], silent = False):
         # when portage will use utf, test utf-8 encoding
 	_outcontent = set()
 	for i in outcontent:
+            i = list(i)
             datatype = i[1]
             try:
                 i[0] = i[0].encode(getfilesystemencoding())
-            except:
-                continue
+            except:  # default encoding failed
+                try:
+                    i[0] = i[0].decode("latin1") # try to convert to latin1 and then back to sys.getfilesystemencoding()
+                    i[0] = i[0].encode(getfilesystemencoding())
+                except:
+                    print "DEBUG: cannot encode into filesystem encoding -> "+str(i[0])
+                    continue
             _outcontent.add((i[0],i[1]))
         outcontent = list(_outcontent)
         outcontent.sort()