imc_channel.hpp: usage of iconv for unix only, bump version 2.0.15

* IMCtermite.pyx: add codepage conversion for windows
* bump VERSION

.github/workflows/pypi-deploy.yml

@@ -40,16 +40,6 @@ jobs:
         with:
           name: wheel-config
           path: python/
-      - name: Install iconv for Windows
-        if: matrix.os == 'windows-2019'
-        steps:
-          - name: Get vcpkg repo
-            run: git clone https://github.com/Microsoft/vcpkg.git
-          - name: Install vcpkg
-            run: .\vcpkg\bootstrap-vcpkg.bat
-            working-directory: vcpkg/
-          - name: Install required package libiconv
-            run: vcpkg install libiconv
       - name: Build wheels
         run: python -m cibuildwheel --output-dir wheelhouse
         working-directory: python/

README.md

@@ -233,3 +233,6 @@ can be found in the `python/examples` folder.
 - https://docs.github.com/en/actions/reference/workflow-syntax-for-github-actions#jobsjob_idstepsrun
 - https://github.com/pypa/cibuildwheel/blob/main/examples/github-deploy.yml
 - https://cibuildwheel.readthedocs.io/en/stable/deliver-to-pypi/
+- https://www.gnu.org/software/libiconv/
+- https://vcpkg.io/en/packages.html
+- https://vcpkg.io/en/getting-started

lib/imc_channel.hpp

@@ -10,7 +10,9 @@
 #include <chrono>
 #include <ctime>
 #include <time.h>
+#if defined(__linux__) || defined(__APPLE__)
 #include <iconv.h>
+#endif
 
 //---------------------------------------------------------------------------//
 
@@ -144,6 +146,7 @@ namespace imc
     return sumstr;
   }
 
+  #if defined(__linux__) || defined(__APPLE__)
   // convert encoding of any descriptions, channel-names, units etc.
   class iconverter
   {
@@ -215,6 +218,14 @@ namespace imc
         astring = outstring;
       }
   };
+  #elif defined(__WIN32__) || defined(_WIN32)
+  class iconverter
+  {
+    public:
+      iconverter(std::string in_enc, std::string out_enc, size_t out_buffer_size = 1024) {}
+      void convert(std::string &astring) {}
+  };
+  #endif
 
   // channel
   struct channel

python/IMCtermite.pyx

@@ -5,6 +5,16 @@ from IMCtermite cimport cppimctermite
 
 import json as jn
 import decimal
+import platform
+
+# auxiliary function for codepage conversion
+def get_codepage(chn) :
+    if platform == 'Windows' :
+        chndec = jn.loads(chn.decode(errors="ignore"))
+        chncdp = chndec["codepage"]
+        return 'utf-8' if chncdp is None else chncdp
+    else :
+        return 'utf-8'
 
 cdef class imctermite:
 
@@ -22,7 +32,7 @@ cdef class imctermite:
   # get JSON list of channels
   def get_channels(self, bool include_data):
     chnlst = self.cppimc.get_channels(True,include_data)
-    chnlstjn = [jn.loads(chn.decode(errors="ignore")) for chn in chnlst]
+    chnlstjn = [jn.loads(chn.decode(get_codepage(chn),errors="ignore")) for chn in chnlst]
     return chnlstjn
 
   # print single channel/all channels

python/VERSION

@@ -1 +1 @@
-2.0.9
+2.0.15