Properly deal with blog names/titles with unicode characters in them.

diff --git a/posttotwitter.py b/posttotwitter.py
index 508623858da3e64db17365ede7ee88e915f8cf66..636a72207aa1b92651de9009b36815462c8d0c1e 100755 (executable)
--- a/posttotwitter.py
+++ b/posttotwitter.py
@@ -11,6 +11,7 @@ Copyright (C) 2009 PostgreSQL Global Development Group
 # Post links to articles on twitter
 
 import psycopg2
+import psycopg2.extensions
 import twitter
 import urllib
 import simplejson as json
@@ -26,6 +27,7 @@ class PostToTwitter:
                        self.trimuser = cfg.get('tr.im','account')
                        self.trimpassword = cfg.get('tr.im','password')
 
+               psycopg2.extensions.register_type(psycopg2.extensions.UNICODE)
                self.db = psycopg2.connect(c.get('planet','db'))
 
                # Only set up the connection to twitter when we know we're going to
@@ -66,14 +68,14 @@ class PostToTwitter:
                        # Set up the string to twitter
                        if post[5] and len(post[5])>1:
                                # Twitter username registered
-                               msg = "%s (@%s): %s %s" % (
+                               msg = unicode("%s (@%s): %s %s") % (
                                        post[4],
                                        post[5],
                                        self.trimpost(post[1],len(post[4])+len(post[5])+len(short)+7),
                                        short,
                                )
                        else:
-                               msg = "%s: %s %s" % (
+                               msg = unicode("%s: %s %s") % (
                                        post[4],
                                        self.trimpost(post[1],len(post[4])+len(short)+3),
                                        short,