Text factory decoding order change - Fixes SiCKRAGETV/sickrage-issues#2319

sickbeard/db.py

@@ -229,19 +229,23 @@ class DBConnection(object):
 
     def _unicode_text_factory(self, x):
         try:
+            # Already unicode, empty string, or ascii
             x = unicode(x)
         except Exception:
             try:
-                x = unicode(x, sickbeard.SYS_ENCODING)
-            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:
-                            # Chardet can be wrong, so try it before ignoring
+                        # 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")