New submission from STINNER Victor: The Python C API has two very useful functions: _Py_char2wchar() and _Py_wchar2char(). They must be used to handle correctly undecodable byte sequences. _Py_char2wchar() and _Py_wchar2char() use the surrogateescape error handler (PEP 383). _Py_char2wchar() forces also the ASCII encoding on FreeBSD and Solaris when the LC_CTYPE locale is C.
Py_Main() expects an array of wide character strings (wchar_t*) for the command line argument, whereas main() gets an array or byte strings (char*). _Py_char2wchar() must be used to be able to call Py_Main(). I propose the following names: wchar_t* Py_DecodeLocale(const char* arg, size_t *size); char* Py_EncodeLocale(const wchar_t *text, size_t *error_pos); See Python/fileutils.c for more information about these functions. Python 3.3 has already higher level functions (calling _Py_char2_wchar() and _Py_wchar2char()): PyObject* PyUnicode_DecodeLocale(const char *str, const char *errors); PyObject* PyUnicode_EncodeLocale(PyObject *unicode, const char *errors); But these functions cannot be used before Python is initialized. ---------- messages: 192557 nosy: haypo priority: normal severity: normal status: open title: Make _Py_char2wchar() and _Py_wchar2char() public versions: Python 3.4 _______________________________________ Python tracker <rep...@bugs.python.org> <http://bugs.python.org/issue18395> _______________________________________ _______________________________________________ Python-bugs-list mailing list Unsubscribe: http://mail.python.org/mailman/options/python-bugs-list/archive%40mail-archive.com
