[Python-3000] Pleaswe help with the countdown to zero failing tests in the struni branch!

[Paul Moore]

On 07/08/07, Guido van Rossum <guido at python.org> wrote:
> On 8/7/07, Thomas Heller <theller at ctypes.org> wrote:
> > I wanted to look into this and noticed that 'import time' on Windows
> > doesn't work anymore on my machine.  The reason is that PyUnicode_FromStringAndSize()
> > is called for the string 'Westeuropäische Normalzeit', and then fails with
> >
> > UnicodeDecodeError: 'utf8' codec can't decode bytes in position 9-11: invalid data
>
> I'm assuming that's a literal somewhere? In what encoding is it? That
> function was recently changed to require the input to be UTF-8. If the
> input isn't UTF-8, you'll have to use another API with an explicit
> encoding, PyUnicode_Decode().

I'd guess it's coming from a call to a Windows API somewhere. The
correct fix is probably to switch to using the "wide character"
Windows APIs, which will give Unicode values as results directly. A
shorter-term fix is possibly to use Windows' default code page to
decode all strings coming back from Windows APIs (although I'm not
sure it'll be any quicker in practice!).

Paul.