this script is used to automate the task of transform cordova plugin files into utf-8 (BOM - byte order mark)

add_utf8_withBOM.py

"""
#C:\dev\phonegap\
 this script is used to automate the task of transform
 cordova plugin files into utf-8 (BOM - byte order mark)
 * This is specfic to cordova platform windows
 **Windows App Certification Kit complains about encoding of files  :-(
 and does not allow to public your app on Windows Store until 
 every file was ok.
"""
import os
import codecs
 
TIPOS = ['.js','.html','.css']
PATH = 'C:/temp/plugins'
BOM_SIZE = len(codecs.BOM_UTF8)

def addUTF8Bom(filename):
    f = codecs.open(filename, 'r', 'utf-8')
    content = f.read()
    f.close()
    if codecs.BOM_UTF8 in content[:BOM_SIZE].encode('utf-8'):
    #do nothing
        print 'O arquivo %s ja esta em uft-8 BOM' %filename
    else:
        print '[ %s ] => UTF-8 BOM' %filename
        f2 = codecs.open(filename, 'w', 'utf-8')
        f2.write(u'\ufeff')
        f2.write(content)
        f2.close()

for tipo in TIPOS:
    print "iniciando conversao do tipo %s" %tipo
    for root, dirs, files in os.walk(PATH):
        for file in files:
            if file.endswith(tipo):
                addUTF8Bom(os.path.join(root, file))