On 10May2019 1832, Victor Stinner wrote:
I studied code of applications embedding Python. Most of them has to decode bytes strings to get wchar_t* to set home, argv, program name, etc. I'm not sure that they use the "correct" encoding, especially since Python 3.7 got UTF-8 Mode (PEP 540) and C locale coercion (PEP 538).
It looks like Py_DecodeLocale() is available very early on - why wouldn't we recommend using this function? It seems to be nearly a drop-in replacement for mbtowcs in the samples, and if memory allocation is a big deal perhaps we could just add a version that writes to a buffer?
That would provide a supported workaround for the encoding issues and unblock people hitting trouble right now, yes?
Cheers, Steve _______________________________________________ Python-Dev mailing list Python-Dev@python.org https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-dev Unsubscribe: https://mail.python.org/mailman/options/python-dev/archive%40mail-archive.com
