Revert text factory to may19, until we can fix unicode

sickbeard/db.py

@@ -57,12 +57,7 @@ class DBConnection(object):
                 db_locks[self.filename] = threading.Lock()
 
                 self.connection = sqlite3.connect(dbFilename(self.filename, self.suffix), 20, check_same_thread=False)
-
-                # Lets test without this for awhile. If non-unicode data is getting to the DB, fix it at the source.
-                # There are too many places we convert when we don't need to, 
-                # sqlite, browsers, python, everything understands unicode
-
-                #self.connection.text_factory = self._unicode_text_factory
+                self.connection.text_factory = self._unicode_text_factory
 
                 db_cons[self.filename] = self.connection
             else:
@@ -235,27 +230,10 @@ class DBConnection(object):
 
     def _unicode_text_factory(self, x):
         try:
-            # Already unicode, empty string, or ascii
-            x = unicode(x)
-        except Exception:
-            try:
-                # most common encoding from web
-                x = unicode(x, 'utf-8')
-            except Exception:
-                try:
-                    # most common from web if utf-8 fails
-                    x = unicode(x, 'latin-1')
-                except Exception:
-                    try:
-                        # try system encoding before trusting chardet
-                        x = unicode(x, sickbeard.SYS_ENCODING)
-                    except Exception:
-                        try:
-                            # Chardet can be wrong, so try it last before ignoring
-                            x = unicode(x, chardet.detect(x).get('encoding'))
-                        except Exception:
-                            x = unicode(x, sickbeard.SYS_ENCODING, errors="ignore")
-        return x
+            # Just revert to the old code for now, until we can fix unicode
+            return unicode(x, 'utf-8')
+        except:
+            return unicode(x, sickbeard.SYS_ENCODING,errors="ignore")
 
     def _dict_factory(self, cursor, row):
         d = {}