New submission from Kaarle Ritvanen: Tab completion in the readline module does not seem to work well with Unicode terminals. The get_line_buffer function converts the line buffer to the str type (which are Unicode strings in Python 3), but the indices returned by get_begidx and get_endidx are not adjusted with respect to possible wide characters in the buffer, and hence are not very useful. The documentation is a bit vague on the index functions, but I think they should be relative to code points, regardless of the encoding used by the C library. The suggested correction is attached.
My second point of complaint is related to the use of PyUnicode_FromString in the module. The strings returned by the readline library use the current locale encoding, which is not necessarily UTF-8. I wonder if PyUnicode_DecodeLocale should be used instead for more portable code. ---------- components: Library (Lib) files: readline-wide-char-index.patch keywords: patch messages: 172517 nosy: kunkku priority: normal severity: normal status: open title: readline: Wrong tab completion scope indices in Unicode terminals type: behavior versions: Python 3.2, Python 3.3 Added file: http://bugs.python.org/file27508/readline-wide-char-index.patch _______________________________________ Python tracker <rep...@bugs.python.org> <http://bugs.python.org/issue16182> _______________________________________ _______________________________________________ Python-bugs-list mailing list Unsubscribe: http://mail.python.org/mailman/options/python-bugs-list/archive%40mail-archive.com
