Patched libgmail for unicode handling

Lars Erik Jordet — Tue, 07 Apr 2009 09:28:51 +0000

libgmail 0.1.11 has a bug with unicode handling, when the sender of an email has a name with one or more non-ASCII character in it.

I’ve applied the patch I described in the link above, adding the function:

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def to_unicode(xstr):
   '''
   Forces string to unicode
   '''
   if type(xstr) == unicode:
   return xstr
   elif type(xstr) == str:
       return xstr.decode('utf-8')
   else:
       return xstr

And changed all calls to var.decode(‘utf-8′) to to_unicode(var).

libgmail-0.1.11p1.zip (source package)
libgmail-0.1.11p1.win32.exe (win32 installer)

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Patched libgmail for unicode handling