try:
	from Products import PlacelessTranslationService
	PLACELESS = 1
except ImportError:
	PLACELESS = 0


def translate(context,msgid,default='', domain='Krihvel', target='', mapping={}):
    """ translate """
    if not PLACELESS:
	    if default:	    
		    return default
	    else:
		    return msgid
    pts = PlacelessTranslationService.getTranslationService()
    v = pts.utranslate(domain='iva',msgid=msgid, mapping=mapping, context=context, default=msgid, target_language=target)
    return v.encode('utf-8')


def to_unicode(s,encoding='utf-8'):
    import types
    from types import UnicodeType
    if type(s)==UnicodeType:
        return s
    try:
        return unicode(s,encoding)
    except UnicodeError:
        return unicode(s,'iso-8859-1')