prevent possible unicode error in window method

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marcelveldt 2016-01-21 11:15:31 +01:00
parent a5d4c881e1
commit cf94305743

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@ -43,10 +43,16 @@ def window(property, value=None, clear=False, windowid=10000):
# Get or set window property
WINDOW = xbmcgui.Window(windowid)
#setproperty accepts both string and unicode but utf-8 strings are adviced by kodi devs because some unicode can give issues
if isinstance(property, unicode):
property = property.encode("utf-8")
if isinstance(value, unicode):
value = value.encode("utf-8")
if clear:
WINDOW.clearProperty(property)
elif value is not None: #setproperty accepts both string and unicode but utf-8 string seems best practice to pass
WINDOW.setProperty(property.encode("utf-8"), value.encode("utf-8"))
elif value is not None:
WINDOW.setProperty(property, value)
else: #getproperty returns string so convert to unicode
return WINDOW.getProperty(property).decode("utf-8")