Could I request that you make your source contributions by first forking the

RhodeCode repository on bitbucket_

https://bitbucket.org/marcinkuzminski/rhodecode and then make your changes to

your forked repository. Please post all fixes into **BETA** branch since your 

fix might be already fixed there and i try to merge all fixes from beta into

stable, and not the other way. Finally, when you are finished making a change, 

please send me a pull request.

To run RhodeCode in a development version you always need to install the tip

version of RhodeCode and the VCS library.

| Thank you for any contributions!

|  Marcin

.. _bitbucket: http://bitbucket.org/

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def safe_str(unicode_, to_encoding=None):

    """

    safe str function. Does few trick to turn unicode_ into string

    In case of UnicodeEncodeError we try to return it with encoding detected

    by chardet library if it fails fallback to string with errors replaced

    :param unicode_: unicode to encode

    :rtype: str

    :returns: str object

    """

    if isinstance(unicode_, str):

        return unicode_

    if not to_encoding:

        import rhodecode

        DEFAULT_ENCODING = rhodecode.CONFIG.get('default_encoding','utf8')

        to_encoding = DEFAULT_ENCODING

    try:

        return unicode_.encode(to_encoding)

    except UnicodeEncodeError:

        pass