[New-bugs-announce] [issue4429] ctypes.FormatError raises when the string to return contains non-ascii characters

[Thomas Heller]

New submission from Thomas Heller <theller at ctypes.org>:

ctypes raises UnicodeDecodeError in german windows (it should print
'Unzulässige Funktion'):

>>> from ctypes import FormatError
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>>> FormatError(1)
Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "<stdin>", line 1, in <module>
UnicodeDecodeError: 'utf8' codec can't decode bytes in position 5-7:
invalid data
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>>>

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assignee: theller
components: ctypes
messages: 76411
nosy: theller
priority: release blocker
severity: normal
status: open
title: ctypes.FormatError raises when the string to return contains non-ascii characters
versions: Python 3.0

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