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+#!/usr/bin/python
+# -*- coding:utf-8 -*-
+#
+# Copyright 2010 Le Coz Florent <louizatakk@fedoraproject.org>
+#
+# This file is part of Poezio.
+#
+# Poezio is free software: you can redistribute it and/or modify
+# it under the terms of the GNU General Public License as published by
+# the Free Software Foundation, version 3 of the License.
+#
+# Poezio is distributed in the hope that it will be useful,
+# but WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of
+# MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE. See the
+# GNU General Public License for more details.
+#
+# You should have received a copy of the GNU General Public License
+# along with Poezio. If not, see <http://www.gnu.org/licenses/>.
+
+"""
+Functions to interact with the keyboard
+Mainly, read keys entered and return a string (most
+of the time ONE char, but may be longer if it's a keyboard
+shortcut, like ^A or KEY_RESIZE)
+"""
+
+def get_next_byte(s):
+ """
+ Read the next byte of the utf-8 char
+ """
+ c = s.getkey()
+ if len(c) > 4:
+ return (None, c)
+ return (ord(c), c)
+
+def read_char(s):
+ """
+ Read one utf-8 char
+ see http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/UTF-8#Description
+ """
+ (first, char) = get_next_byte(s)
+ if first == None: # Keyboard special, like KEY_HOME etc
+ return char
+ if first <= 127: # ASCII char on one byte
+ if first <= 26: # transform Ctrl+* keys
+ char = "^"+chr(first + 64)
+ if first == 27:
+ (_, c) = get_next_byte(s)
+ char = "M-"+c
+ return char
+ if 194 <= first:
+ (code, c) = get_next_byte(s) # 2 bytes char
+ char += c
+ if 224 <= first:
+ (code, c) = get_next_byte(s) # 3 bytes char
+ char += c
+ if 240 <= code:
+ (code, c) = get_next_byte(s) # 4 bytes char
+ char += c
+ return char