Fixed broken encoding of non-latin characters. Fixes #32

The server incorrectly encodes unicode characters in its responses,
causing mojibake when we try to output them.

This may happen with folder names or hostnames, so we need to fix the
encoding on those before continuing.

Author: marxjohnson

btsyncindicator.py

@@ -310,6 +310,11 @@ def check_status(self):
 
             status = response.json()
 
+            for folder in status['folders']:
+               folder['name'] = self.fix_encoding(folder['name'])
+               for peer in folder['peers']:
+                   peer['status'] = self.fix_encoding(peer['status'])
+
             self.check_activity(status['folders'])
 
             curfoldernames = [ folder['name'] for folder in self.status['folders'] ]
@@ -635,6 +640,9 @@ def get_response_text(self, response):
         """
         return response.text if hasattr(response, "text") else response.content
 
+    def fix_encoding(self, text):
+        return text.encode('latin-1').decode('utf-8')
+
     def main(self):
         gtk.timeout_add(TIMEOUT * 1000, self.setup_session)
         gtk.main()