changed pty_dict to unicode strings, fixed quote char in pty-list.csv ,increased length of corrected burst errors to 5, added interact on error breaks

data/pty-list.csv

@@ -17,7 +17,7 @@ PTY code,RDS program type (EU),RBDS program type (North America)
 15,Other music,Classical
 16,Weather,Rhythm and blues
 17,Finance,Soft rhythm and blues
-18,Children’s programmes,Language
+18,Children's programmes,Language
 19,Social affairs,Religious music
 20,Religion,Religious talk
 21,Phone-in,Personality

lib/rds_decoder_redsea_impl.cc

@@ -135,7 +135,8 @@ static const char * const offset_name[]={"A","B","C","D","c"};*/
     // restricted by attempting to correct bursts of errors spanning one or two
     // bits."
     // Kopitz & Marks 1999: "RDS: The Radio Data System", p. 224
-    for (uint32_t e=0x1;e <= 0x3;e+=0x2) {//for (uint32_t e : {0x1, 0x3}) {
+    //for (uint32_t e=0x1;e <= 0x3;e+=0x2) {//for (uint32_t e : {0x1, 0x3}) {
+    for (uint32_t e : {0x1, 0x3, 0x7,0x15,0x31}) {//0x1, 0x3, 0x7,0x15,0x31
       for (int shift=0; shift < 26; shift++) {
         uint32_t errvec = ((e << shift) & kBitmask26);
         uint16_t sy = calc_syndrome(errvec ^ offset_word[offset_num],26);
@@ -316,9 +317,9 @@ int rds_decoder_redsea_impl::work (int noutput_items,
                                         block_number=(block_number+1) % 4;
                                         blocks_counter++;
 /* 1187.5 bps / 104 bits = 11.4 groups/sec, or 45.7 blocks/sec */
-                                        if (blocks_counter==30) {//reduced from 50
+                                        if (blocks_counter==40) {//reduced from 50
                                                 last_wrong_blocks_counter=wrong_blocks_counter;
-                                                if (wrong_blocks_counter>21) {//reduced from 35
+                                                if (wrong_blocks_counter>28) {//reduced from 35
                                                         lout << "@@@@@ Lost Sync (Got " << wrong_blocks_counter
                                                                 << " bad blocks on " << blocks_counter
                                                                 << " total)" << std::endl;

python/rds_parser_table_qt.py

@@ -163,7 +163,7 @@ class rds_parser_table_qt(gr.sync_block):#START
         f=open(self.workdir+'pty-list.csv')
         reader = csv.reader(f, delimiter=',', quotechar='"')
         reader.next()#skip header
-        self.pty_dict=dict((int(rows[0]),rows[1]) for rows in reader)
+        self.pty_dict=dict((int(rows[0]),unicode(rows[1],errors='ignore')) for rows in reader)
         f.close()
         self.minute_count=0
         self.minute_count_max=0
@@ -925,9 +925,13 @@ class rds_parser_table_qt(gr.sync_block):#START
                     #formatted_text="<font face='Courier New' color='%s'>%s</font>"%("purple",PS_ON_str)
                     self.signals.DataUpdateEvent.emit({'PI':PI_ON,'PSN':formatted_text})
                     try:
-                        t=(PI_ON,str(self.RDS_data[PI_ON]["PSN"]),float(self.RDS_data[PI_ON]["AF"]["main"]),str(self.RDS_data[PI_ON]["PTY"]),int(self.RDS_data[PI_ON]["TP"]))
+                        t=(PI_ON,self.RDS_data[PI_ON]["PSN"],float(self.RDS_data[PI_ON]["AF"]["main"]),self.RDS_data[PI_ON]["PTY"],int(self.RDS_data[PI_ON]["TP"]))
                         if self.writeDB:
+                            try:
                                 db.execute("INSERT OR REPLACE INTO stations (PI,PSN,freq,PTY,TP) VALUES (?,?,?,?,?)",t)
+                            except Exception as e:
+                                print(e)
+                                code.interact(local=locals())
                     except KeyError:
                         #not all info present -> no db update
                         pass
@@ -1015,7 +1019,7 @@ class rds_parser_table_qt(gr.sync_block):#START
         0b1111:u"ãåæœŵýõøþŋŕćśźŧ "}#0xff should not occur (not in standard) (but occured 2017-03-04-9:18 , probably transmission error)
 
         #charlist=list(charstring)
-        return_string=""
+        return_string=u""
         for i,char in enumerate(charstring):
             #split byte
             alnr=(ord(char)&0xF0 )>>4 #upper 4 bit
@@ -1023,9 +1027,9 @@ class rds_parser_table_qt(gr.sync_block):#START
             if ord(char)<= 0b00011111:#control code
                 if ord(char)==0x0D or ord(char)==0x00:#end of message SWR uses: \r\0\0\0 for last block (\0 fill 4 char segment)
                     #return_string+="\r"
-                    return_string+=char
+                    return_string+=unichr(ord(char))
                 else:
-                    return_string+="{%02X}"%ord(char)#output control code
+                    return_string+=u"{%02X}"%ord(char)#output control code
 #       elif ord(char)<= 0b01111111: #real encoding slightly different from ascii
 #         return_string+=char#use ascii
             else:
@@ -1033,9 +1037,11 @@ class rds_parser_table_qt(gr.sync_block):#START
                     return_string+=alphabet[alnr][index]
                     #return_string+=unichr(ord(char))#TODO: properly decide for UTF8 or EBU charset
                 except KeyError:
-                    return_string+="?%02X?"%ord(char)#symbol not decoded
+                    return_string+=u"?%02X?"%ord(char)#symbol not decoded
                     print("symbol not decoded: "+"?%02X?"%ord(char)+"in string:"+return_string)
                     pass
+        if not type(return_string)==unicode:
+            code.interact(local=locals())
         return return_string
     def color_text(self, text, start,end,textcolor,segmentcolor):
         #formatted_text="<font face='Courier New' color='%s'>%s</font><font face='Courier New' color='%s'>%s</font><font face='Courier New' color='%s'>%s</font>"% (textcolor,text[:start],segmentcolor,text[start:end],textcolor,text[end:])