string cutting for unicode

qalbum/Qalbum.py

@@ -27,7 +27,7 @@ from datetime import datetime
 
 # (c) ville.q.rantanen@gmail.com
 
-__version__='2.20161005'
+__version__='2.20180731'
 
 FILECONFIG=".config"
 FILEDESC="descriptions.csv"
@@ -209,7 +209,13 @@ def pathlinks(path,list):
             imgstr='<span class="pathbox" style="background-image:url(\''+urllib.quote(p)+'/.tn/'+urllib.quote(imglist[0])+'.jpg\');">'
         else:
             imgstr='<span class="pathbox">'
-        pathstr+='<a title="'+unicode(p,encoding="utf8").encode('ascii', 'xmlcharrefreplace')+'" href="'+urllib.quote(p)+'/index.html">'+imgstr+'<span class="pathlink"><span class="pathlinktext">'+unicode(nice,encoding="utf8").encode('ascii', 'xmlcharrefreplace')+' ('+nsum+')</span></span></span></a>';
+        pathstr += '<a title="%s" href="%s/index.html">%s<span class="pathlink"><span class="pathlinktext">%s (%s)</span></span></span></a>'%(
+            unicode(p,encoding="utf8").encode('ascii', 'xmlcharrefreplace'),
+            urllib.quote(p),
+            imgstr,
+            nice.encode('ascii', 'xmlcharrefreplace'),
+            nsum
+        )
     pathstr+='</script>'
     pathstr+='</div>'
     return pathstr
@@ -251,7 +257,13 @@ def imagelinks(path,list):
         except:
             desc=doublequotes.sub('',filter(lambda x: x in string.printable, descriptions[n]).encode('ascii', 'xmlcharrefreplace'))
 
-        strout+='<span class="imagebox thumbbox" id="n'+str(n)+'"><a href="'+urllib.quote(i)+'"><img class="thumbimage" "title="'+desc+'" src=".tn/'+urllib.quote(i)+'.jpg"><br/>'+unicode(nice,encoding="utf8").encode('ascii', 'xmlcharrefreplace')+'</a></span>'
+        strout += '<span class="imagebox thumbbox" id="n%d"><a href="%s"><img class="thumbimage" "title="%s" src=".tn/%s.jpg"><br/>%s</a></span>'%(
+            n,
+            urllib.quote(i),
+            desc,
+            urllib.quote(i),
+            nice.encode('ascii', 'xmlcharrefreplace')
+        )
         n+=1
     strout+='</noscript></div>'
     return strout
@@ -397,6 +409,7 @@ def crumblinks(crumbs,title,parent):
 
 def nicestring(s):
     ''' Returns a nice version of a long string '''
+    s = unicode(s, encoding = "utf8")
     if len(s)<20:
         return s
     s=s.replace("_"," ")

setup.py

@@ -7,7 +7,7 @@ setup(
              'scripts/Qalbum-descriptor'],
   package_data={'':['lib/*']},
   include_package_data=True,
-  version = '2.20161005',
+  version = '2.20180731',
   description = 'A tool to create a web gallery from a folder structure of images / other files.',
   author = 'Ville Rantanen',
   author_email = 'ville.q.rantanen@gmail.com',