issue 626 fixes unicode and truncattion, thanks mweissen

2012-01-20 11:36:42 -06:00
parent 1356e5b73f
commit 6837da0917
3 changed files with 16 additions and 14 deletions
@@ -124,6 +124,12 @@ def xmlescape(data, quote = True):
    return data


+def truncate_string(text, length, dots='...'):
+    text = text.decode('utf-8')
+    if len(text)>length:
+        text = text[:length-len(dots)].encode('utf-8')+dots
+    return text
+
 def URL(
    a=None,
    c=None,