improve utf-8 support in the units_cur script

units-2.10-bz1082335.patch

@@ -0,0 +1,35 @@
+From 767f49f2d3e6ded0f2e01563fcf2d272aa6a7141 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
+From: Kamil Dudka <kdudka@redhat.com>
+Date: Mon, 31 Mar 2014 14:38:57 +0200
+Subject: [PATCH] units_cur2: encode utf-8 for sys.stdout, too
+
+Otherwise, the script ends up with the following error:
+
+$ python2 ./units_cur2 - | cat
+./units_cur2:53: RuntimeWarning: Argument <type 'str'> is not an unicode object. Passing an encoded string will likely have unexpected results.
+  ascii = unidecode(names[i])
+Traceback (most recent call last):
+  File "./units_cur2", line 114, in <module>
+    outfile.write(outstr.replace('\n',os.linesep))
+UnicodeEncodeError: 'ascii' codec can't encode character u'\xf3' in position 41: ordinal not in range(128)
+---
+ units_cur2 |    3 ++-
+ 1 files changed, 2 insertions(+), 1 deletions(-)
+
+diff --git a/units_cur2 b/units_cur2
+index 7d4e8f5..d810be5 100755
+--- a/units_cur2
++++ b/units_cur2
+@@ -104,7 +104,8 @@ for metal in metals:
+ 
+ try:
+   if outfile == '-':
+-    outfile = sys.stdout
++    info = codecs.lookup('utf8')
++    outfile = codecs.StreamReaderWriter(sys.stdout, info.streamreader, info.streamwriter)
+   else:    
+     outfile = codecs.open(outfile,'w','utf8')
+ except IOError, exc:
+-- 
+1.7.1
+

units.spec

@@ -3,6 +3,7 @@ Name: units
 Version: 2.10
 Release: 2%{?dist}
 Source: ftp://ftp.gnu.org/gnu/units/%{name}-%{version}.tar.gz
+Patch0: units-2.10-bz1082335.patch
 URL: http://www.gnu.org/software/units/units.html
 License: GPLv3+
 Group: Applications/Engineering
@@ -23,6 +24,8 @@ well as conversions such as Fahrenheit to Celsius.
 
 %prep
 %setup -q
+%patch0 -p1
+touch units_cur3
 
 %build
 %configure
@@ -59,6 +62,7 @@ fi
 %changelog
 * Mon Mar 31 2014 Kamil Dudka <kdudka@redhat.com> - 2.10-2
 - require python-unidecode used by the units_cur script
+- improve utf-8 support in the units_cur script
 
 * Thu Mar 27 2014 Kamil Dudka <kdudka@redhat.com> - 2.10-1
 - new upstream release