# HG changeset patch
# User Matt Mackall <mpm@selenic.com>
# Date 2014-02-05 23:23:35
# Node ID 6863d42eb59a39ea483eec0728b3a5d6836d20b6
# Parent  7d269e7620c48eee93871d33e673b7a8acb503cc

hgweb: hack around mimetypes encoding thinko (issue4160)

A correct patch for this has existed in Python's BTS for 3 years
(http://bugs.python.org/issue9291), so waiting for it to be fixed
upstream is probably not a viable strategy. Instead, we add this
horrible hack to workaround the issue in existing copies of Python
2.4-2.7.

diff --git a/mercurial/hgweb/server.py b/mercurial/hgweb/server.py
--- a/mercurial/hgweb/server.py
+++ b/mercurial/hgweb/server.py
@@ -322,7 +322,20 @@ def create_server(ui, app):
         cls = MercurialHTTPServer
 
     # ugly hack due to python issue5853 (for threaded use)
-    import mimetypes; mimetypes.init()
+    try:
+        import mimetypes
+        mimetypes.init()
+    except UnicodeDecodeError:
+        # Python 2.x's mimetypes module attempts to decode strings
+        # from Windows' ANSI APIs as ascii (fail), then re-encode them
+        # as ascii (clown fail), because the default Python Unicode
+        # codec is hardcoded as ascii.
+
+        reload(sys) # resurrect sys.setdefaultencoding()
+        oldenc = sys.getdefaultencoding()
+        sys.setdefaultencoding("latin1") # or any full 8-bit encoding
+        mimetypes.init()
+        sys.setdefaultencoding(oldenc)
 
     address = ui.config('web', 'address', '')
     port = util.getport(ui.config('web', 'port', 8000))