[kupfer: 34/38] Encode commandline in locale encoding in utils.spawn_async

[Ulrik Sverdrup <usverdrup src gnome org>]

commit 389d8efd4da8f652e615a8eb7fa3d7dabcf970ef
Author: Ulrik Sverdrup <ulrik sverdrup gmail com>
Date:   Sat Jan 16 16:41:49 2010 +0100

    Encode commandline in locale encoding in utils.spawn_async

 kupfer/kupferstring.py |    5 +++++
 kupfer/utils.py        |    3 +++
 2 files changed, 8 insertions(+), 0 deletions(-)
---
diff --git a/kupfer/kupferstring.py b/kupfer/kupferstring.py
index 66a6c64..31c3e16 100644
--- a/kupfer/kupferstring.py
+++ b/kupfer/kupferstring.py
@@ -47,6 +47,11 @@ def fromlocale(lstr):
 	enc = locale.getpreferredencoding(do_setlocale=False)
 	return lstr.decode(enc, "replace")
 
+def tolocale(ustr):
+	"""Return a locale-encoded bytestring from unicode @ustr"""
+	enc = locale.getpreferredencoding(do_setlocale=False)
+	return ustr.encode(enc, "replace")
+
 
 def tofolded(ustr):
 	u"""Fold @ustr
diff --git a/kupfer/utils.py b/kupfer/utils.py
index d7ee445..634d02b 100644
--- a/kupfer/utils.py
+++ b/kupfer/utils.py
@@ -6,6 +6,7 @@ import locale
 import gobject
 
 from kupfer import pretty
+from kupfer import kupferstring
 
 def get_dirlist(folder, depth=0, include=None, exclude=None):
 	"""
@@ -69,6 +70,8 @@ def locale_sort(seq, key=unicode):
 
 def spawn_async(argv, in_dir="."):
 	pretty.print_debug(__name__, "Spawn commandline", argv, in_dir)
+	argv = [kupferstring.tolocale(A) if isinstance(A, unicode) else A
+			for A in argv]
 	try:
 		return gobject.spawn_async (argv, working_directory=in_dir,
 				flags=gobject.SPAWN_SEARCH_PATH)