#!/usr/bin/python
# -*- coding: utf-8 -*-

# Mitter, a Maemo client for Twitter.
# Copyright (C) 2007, 2008  Julio Biason, Deepak Sarda
#
# This program 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, either version 3 of the License, or
# (at your option) any later version.
#
# This program 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 this program.  If not, see <http://www.gnu.org/licenses/>.

def str_len(s):
    """Get length of string which may be unicode or encoded"""

    return len(to_unicode(s))

def to_unicode(s, encoding='utf-8'):
    """Converts string to unicode if it isn't one already"""

    if not isinstance(s, unicode):
        return unicode(s, encoding)
