From e915b0b62cb5abb920580f2cd379c9ca6b29d27d Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Mika Bostrom <bostik@odin.bostik.iki.fi>
Date: Thu, 21 Jan 2010 21:23:13 +0200
Subject: [PATCH] Allow to bypass codec

If the system (display) locale is UTF-8, there is no need to encode to
either direction. In fact, running the .encode() routine appears to
mangle a valid UTF-8 string to a worse condition, effectively breaking
it.
---
 pyfpdb/Charset.py | 7 +++++++
 1 file changed, 7 insertions(+)

diff --git a/pyfpdb/Charset.py b/pyfpdb/Charset.py
index 2c6f78c3..85cbd69a 100644
--- a/pyfpdb/Charset.py
+++ b/pyfpdb/Charset.py
@@ -24,11 +24,18 @@ import Configuration
 encoder_to_utf = codecs.lookup('utf-8')
 encoder_to_sys = codecs.lookup(Configuration.LOCALE_ENCODING)
 
+# I'm saving a few cycles with this one
+not_needed = False
+if Configuration.LOCALE_ENCODING == 'utf-8':
+    not_needed = True
+
 def to_utf8(s):
+    if not_needed: return s
     (_out, _len) = encoder_to_utf.encode(s)
     return _out
 
 def to_gui(s):
+    if not_needed: return s
     (_out, _len) = encoder_to_sys.encode(s)
     return _out