From 4172f12fb0a883aeac8d70d6ad1a50982b1d9ea1 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Susanne Oberhauser <froh@suse.de>
Date: Mon, 6 Jul 2009 10:27:27 +0000
Subject: [PATCH] Work around funny python 2.6 default unicode unawareness to
 allow for unicode characters e.g. in submit request comments.

---
 osc-wrapper.py | 9 ++++++++-
 1 file changed, 8 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/osc-wrapper.py b/osc-wrapper.py
index 26ebff10..7bbe8d18 100755
--- a/osc-wrapper.py
+++ b/osc-wrapper.py
@@ -3,7 +3,14 @@
 # this wrapper exists so it can be put into /usr/bin, but still allows the 
 # python module to be called within the source directory during development
 
-import sys
+
+import sys, locale
+# this is a hack to make osc work as expected with utf-8 characters, no matter
+# how site.py is set...
+reload(sys)
+sys.setdefaultencoding(locale.getdefaultlocale()[1])
+del sys.setdefaultencoding
+
 from osc import commandline
 from osc import babysitter