oh no, encoding problemz

escpos.py

@@ -5,7 +5,9 @@
 escpos = {
   "init_printer": "\x1B\x40",
 
-  "select_international_character_set": "\x1B\x52\x00",
+  "select_INT_character_set": "\x1B\x52\x00",
+  "select_FR_character_set": "\x1B\x52\x01",
+  "select_character_code_table": "\x1B\x74\x28",
 
   "justify_left": "\x1B\x61\x00",
   "justify_center": "\x1B\x61\x01",

printer.py

@@ -11,58 +11,69 @@ import nltk
 from nltk.tokenize import RegexpTokenizer
 tokenizer = RegexpTokenizer(r'\w+') # initialize tokenizer
 
-try:
-	printerpath = '/dev/usb/lp0'
-	stdout = open(printerpath, 'w')
-	connected = True
-	print('*receipt printer connected*')
-except:
-	stdout = sys.__stdout__
-	connected = False
-	print('*no receipt printer connected*')
+
+connected = True
+
+def char_swap(some_string):
+	swaps = [('–','-'), ('“','"'),('”','"'),('ù','u'), ("’","'"), ('à','a'), ('â','a'),('é','e'),('è','e'),('î','i')]
+	for swap in swaps:
+		some_string = some_string.replace(swap[0], swap[1])
+		#print(swap, some_string)
+	return some_string
 
 def insert_linebreaks(string, linelength):
-	words = tokenizer.tokenize(string)
 	count = 0
 	tmp = ''
 	new = ''
-	for word in words:
-		length = len(word)
-		count += len(word)
-		if word == words[-1]:
-			tmp += word
-			new += tmp
-		elif count <= linelength:
-			tmp += word + ' '
+	for x, ch in enumerate(string):
+		tmp_ch = []
+		if ch == ' ':
+			count = count + 1
+			if count < linelength:
+				tmp += ' '
+			else:
+				new += tmp + '\n'
+				tmp = ''
+				count = 0
+		elif x+1 == len(string):
+			new += tmp + ch
 		else:
-			new += tmp + '\n'
-			tmp = ''
-			count = 0
+			tmp += ch
+			count += 1
+	#print('string <<<', string)
+	#print('new >>>', new)
 	return new
 
 def printNow(query, results, results_count):
 	if connected == True:
+		printerpath = '/dev/usb/lp1'
+		stdout = open(printerpath, 'w')
+		#print('printingNow')
 		print(escpos['reset'], file=stdout, flush=True)
 		print(escpos['init_printer'], file=stdout, flush=True)
-		# print(escpos['select_international_character_set'], file=stdout, flush=True)
+		#print(escpos['select_INT_character_set'], file=stdout, flush=True)
+		#print(escpos['select_character_code_table'], file=stdout, flush=True)
 		print(escpos['margin_left'], file=stdout, flush=True)
 		print(escpos['justify_center'], file=stdout, flush=True)
 
 		printed = False
 
-		if results_count == None:
+		if results_count == None or results_count == 'None':
 			results_count = 0
 		results_count_max = results_count + 5
 		current_count = 0
 		for x, document in results.items():
 			for n, sentence in enumerate(document['matches']):
-				print('current_count', current_count)
+				#print('current_count', current_count)
 				if current_count == results_count:
 					printed = True
 					if results_count < results_count_max:
-						print('results_count', results_count)
+						#print('results_count', results_count)
 						results_count += 1
 						sentence = str(sentence) # Turn Flask Markup object back to normal python string
+						print(type(sentence))
+						sentence = char_swap(sentence)
+						query = char_swap(query)
 						sentence = sentence.replace('\n', ' ').replace(' ', ' ')
 						pattern = r'[\s\W\_]'+query+r'[\s\W\_\n]|^'+query+'|'+query+'$'
 						match = re.search(pattern, sentence, flags=re.IGNORECASE)
@@ -85,12 +96,12 @@ def printNow(query, results, results_count):
 	 //    '''
 									print(linebreak, file=stdout, flush=True) # print line break ascii art
 									print('\n', file=stdout, flush=True)
-									title = insert_linebreaks(document['name'], 40)
-									print(title, file=stdout, flush=True) # print the document name
+									title = insert_linebreaks(document['name'], 13)
+									print(escpos['largefont'], title, escpos['normalfont'], file=stdout, flush=True) # print the document name
 									print('\n', file=stdout, flush=True)
 
 							# start of sentence
-							part = insert_linebreaks(part, 40)
+							part = insert_linebreaks(part, 35)
 							print(part, file=stdout, flush=True) # print current part of sentence
 
 							if i + 1 != len(sentence_splitted): # if this part is not the last one
@@ -116,7 +127,6 @@ def printNow(query, results, results_count):
 
 		return results_count
 
-
 # query = 'noise'
 # results, _, _ = readings.request_results(query)
 # pprint(results)

start.py

@@ -45,7 +45,7 @@ def index_lang(lang):
 	if printer.connected == True:
 		connection = 'connected'
 	else:
-		connection = 'disconnected'
+		connection = 'connected'
 
 	# Check if print command
 	if request.args.get('results_count', ''):
@@ -53,17 +53,14 @@ def index_lang(lang):
 		print('results_count', results_count)
 	else:
 		results_count = 0
-
+	
 	if request.args.get('q', ''):
 		results, filenames, analytics = readings.request_results(query)
 
 		# print commands
 		if request.args.get('print', '') == 'now':
 			if connection == 'connected':
-				print('*print!*', file=stdout)
-				print('results_count (before)', results_count)
 				results_count = printer.printNow(query, results, results_count)
-				print('results_count (after)', results_count)
 
 		return flask.render_template(lang+'/results.html', query=query, results=results, filenames=filenames, connection=connection, suggestions=suggestions, analytics=analytics, lang=lang, results_count=results_count)