Use utf8 wherever it's needed

blogthon.cgi

@@ -18,6 +18,10 @@ import sys
 import time
 import locale
 import re
+import codecs
+
+# print() will output ascii, but we want utf-8
+sys.stdout = codecs.getwriter('utf8')(sys.stdout.buffer)
 
 # Backward compatibilty to python2
 try:
@@ -220,10 +224,10 @@ if cname and ctext and ctitle:
     else:
         comments_file = os.path.join(entries_dir, ctitle + ".comments")
         if not os.path.exists(comments_file):
-            content = open(comments_file, "w")
+            content = open(comments_file, "w", encoding="utf8")
             content.close()
 
-        content = open(comments_file, "a")
+        content = open(comments_file, "a", encoding="utf8")
         content.write("-." + cname + "\n")
         content.write("+." + time.strftime("%c", time.localtime()) + "\n")
         ctext = ctext.split("\n")
@@ -299,7 +303,7 @@ if feed_display == "atom":
         print(ind*3 + "<id>urn:uuid:%s</id>" % title_md5sum)
         print(ind*3 + "<updated>%s-%s-%sT%s:%s:%sZ</updated>" % (str(date[0]), month, day, hour, min, sec))
         print(ind*3 + "<summary>")
-        content = open(str(entries[i][1]), "r")
+        content = open(str(entries[i][1]), "r", encoding="utf8")
         for h in range(0, int(feed_preview)):
             rss_line = content.readline().strip()
             if rss_line != "":
@@ -329,7 +333,7 @@ elif feed_display == "rss":
         print(ind*3 + "<link>%s?p=%s</link>" % (blog_url, title))
         print(ind*3 + "<guid>%s?p=%s</guid>" % (blog_url, title))
         print(ind*3 + "<pubDate>%s</pubDate>" % date)
-        content = open(str(entries[i][1]), "r")
+        content = open(str(entries[i][1]), "r", encoding="utf8")
         rss_description= ""
         for h in range(0, int(feed_preview)):
             line = content.readline().strip()
@@ -393,7 +397,7 @@ else:
         print(ind*3 + "<div class=\"pages_list\">")
         print(ind*4 + "<ul class=\"pages_list\">")
         for staticpage in staticpages_list:
-            file = open(staticpage, "r")
+            file = open(staticpage, "r", encoding="utf8")
             header = file.readline()
             if header.split(":", 1)[0] == "extern_link":
                 link = header.split(":", 1)[1].strip()
@@ -435,7 +439,7 @@ else:
         print(ind*3 + "<div class=\"linklist_list\">")
         print(ind*4 + "<ul class=\"linklist_list\">")
         try:
-            content = open("linklist", "r")
+            content = open("linklist", "r", encoding="utf8")
             for line in content:
                 if line.strip() is "":
                     print("<br />")
@@ -455,7 +459,7 @@ else:
 
     # Staticpage
     if static_display != "":
-        content = open(os.path.join(staticpages_dir, static_display), "r")
+        content = open(os.path.join(staticpages_dir, static_display), "r", encoding="utf-8")
         print(ind*3 + "<div class=\"entry\">")
         print(ind*4 + "<div class=\"entry_title\">%s</div>" % re.sub("^\.", "", re.sub("\d+?-", "", static_display)))
         print(ind*4 + "<div class=\"entry_content\">")
@@ -494,7 +498,7 @@ else:
             if month_display == date_to_compare or not month_display:
                 if post_display == title.replace(" ", "-") or not post_display:
                     if allentries_display == "1" or entry_counter < entries_per_page:
-                        content = open(entry, "r")
+                        content = open(entry, "r", encoding="utf8")
                         print(ind*3 + "<div class=\"entry\">")
                         if permalinks:
                             print(ind*4 + "<div class=\"entry_title\"><a href=\"?p=%s\" class=\"entry_title\">%s</a></div>" % (title.replace(" ", "-"), title))
@@ -519,7 +523,7 @@ else:
                         comments_file = glob(os.path.join(entries_dir, title + ".comments"))
                         if post_display:
                             if comments_file:
-                                comments_content = open(comments_file[0], "r")
+                                comments_content = open(comments_file[0], "r", encoding="utf8")
                                 print(ind*3 + "</div>")
                                 print(ind*2 + "</div>")
                                 print("")
@@ -585,7 +589,7 @@ else:
                                 print(ind*3 + "</div>")
                                 print("")
                             elif comments_file and not post_display:
-                                comments_content = open(comments_file[0], "r")
+                                comments_content = open(comments_file[0], "r", encoding="utf8")
                                 comments_counter = 0
                                 for line in comments_content:
                                     if line.split(".", 1)[0] == "-": comments_counter += 1