This is a follow-up commit for commit
6dbf103e10 ("Use html.escape instead
removed cgi.escape"), which breaks the python2 backward compatibility
(since the "html" module is not available by default) and also breaks
the code in general (due to missing html imports).
The fix is based on the proposed fix in [1].
Fixes: boo#1166537 ("osc rq accept - forwarding request causes backtrace")
[1] https://github.com/openSUSE/osc/pull/764
In some rare cases the chardet encoding detection detects
a wrong encoding standard. Then we switch to latin-1 which
covers most if utf-8 does not work.
This functions are used in the whole code and are
mandatory for the python3 support to work. In python2
case nothing is touched.
* cmp_to_key:
converts a cmp= into a key= function
* decode_list:
decodes each element of a list. This is needed if
we have a mixed list with strings and bytes.
* decode_it:
Takes the input and checks if it is not a string.
Then it uses chardet to get the encoding.
