openlp/cnvdb.py

#!/usr/bin/env python
# -*- coding: utf-8 -*-
# vim: autoindent shiftwidth=4 expandtab textwidth=80 tabstop=4 softtabstop=4
"""
OpenLP - Open Source Lyrics Projection
Copyright (c) 2008 Raoul Snyman
Portions copyright (c) 2008-2009 Martin Thompson, Tim Bentley,

This program is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify it under
the terms of the GNU General Public License as published by the Free Software
Foundation; version 2 of the License.

This program is distributed in the hope that it will be useful, but WITHOUT ANY
WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A
PARTICULAR PURPOSE. See the GNU General Public License for more details.

You should have received a copy of the GNU General Public License along with
this program; if not, write to the Free Software Foundation, Inc., 59 Temple
Place, Suite 330, Boston, MA 02111-1307 USA
"""
import codecs
import sys

def convert_file(self, inname, outname):
    """
    Convert a file from another encoding into UTF-8.

    ``inname``
        The name of the file to be opened and converted.

    ``outname``
        The output file name.
    """
    infile = codecs.open(inname, 'r', encoding='iso-8859-1')
    writefile = codecs.open(outname, 'w', encoding='utf-8')
    for line in infile:
        #replace the quotes with quotes
        line = line.replace(u'\'\'', u'\'')
        writefile.write(line)
    infile.close()
    writefile.close()

if __name__ == '__main__':
    """
    Run the conversion script.
    """
    if len(sys.argv) < 2:
        print 'No action specified.'
        sys.exit()
    print 'Uncode conversion:'
    print 'Input file  = ', sys.argv[1]
    print 'Output file = ', sys.argv[2]
    print 'Converting...'
    convert_file(sys.argv[1], sys.argv[2])
    print 'Done.'