FIX: Fixed problem with unicode in DICOM gender field

Paulo Henrique Junqueira Amorim
1 parent 577a698f
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invesalius/reader/dicom.py
@@ -1224,7 +1224,14 @@ class Parser():
             return ""
         if (data):
-            return str(data)
+            name = data.strip()
+            encoding = self.GetEncoding()
+            try:
+                # Returns a unicode decoded in the own dicom encoding
+                return name.decode(encoding, 'replace')
+            except(UnicodeEncodeError):
+                return name
+
         return ""
     def GetPatientAge(self):
	@@ -1224,7 +1224,14 @@ class Parser():		@@ -1224,7 +1224,14 @@ class Parser():
1224	return ""	1224	return ""
1225		1225
1226	if (data):	1226	if (data):
1227	- return str(data)	1227	+ name = data.strip()
		1228	+ encoding = self.GetEncoding()
		1229	+ try:
		1230	+ # Returns a unicode decoded in the own dicom encoding
		1231	+ return name.decode(encoding, 'replace')
		1232	+ except(UnicodeEncodeError):
		1233	+ return name
		1234	+
1228	return ""	1235	return ""
1229		1236
1230	def GetPatientAge(self):	1237	def GetPatientAge(self):