better unicode (utf-8) support

1 files changed, 5 insertions, 1 deletions

diff --git a/misc.py b/misc.py
index dd27eaf..a0886ea 100644
--- a/misc.py
+++ b/misc.py
@@ -2,6 +2,7 @@ from PyQt4 import QtCore, QtGui
 import re
 import urllib2, httplib, cookielib
 import socket
+import unicodedata
 
 import format
 import log
@@ -33,10 +34,13 @@ def unique(seq):
 	seen = []
 	return t(c for c in seq if not (c in seen or seen.append(c)))
 
+def toAscii(ustr):
+	return unicodedata.normalize('NFKD', ustr).encode('ascii', 'ignore')
+
 def fetch(SE, sites, song=None, xtra_tags={}):
 	"""Returns None when nothing found, or [site,source-url]."""
 	f=format.compile(SE)
-	SE_url=f(format.params(song, xtra_tags))
+	SE_url=toAscii(f(format.params(song, xtra_tags)))
 	SE_url=SE_url.replace(' ', '+')
 	
 	request=urllib2.Request(SE_url)