[Python-Dev] Unicode and Windows

[M.-A. Lemburg]

Jack Jansen wrote:
> 
> > > [on the user-supplies-buffer interface]
> > > I think this would be much less error-prone than having fixed-length buffers
> > > all over the place.
> >
> > PyArg_ParseTuple() should probably raise an error in case the
> > data doesn't fit into the buffer.
> 
> Ah, that's right, that solves most of that problem.
> 
> > > [on the malloced interface]
> > Good point. You'll still need the buffer_len output parameter
> > though -- otherwise you wouldn't be able tell the size of the
> > allocated buffer (the returned data may not be terminated).
> 
> Are you sure? I would expect the "eS" format to be used to obtain 8-bit data
> in some local encoding, and I would expect that all 8-bit encodings of unicode
> data would still allow for null-termination. Or are there 8-bit encodings out
> there where a zero byte is normal occurrence and where it can't be used as
> terminator?

Not sure whether these exist or not, but they are certainly
a possibility to keep in mind.

Perhaps adding "es#" and "es" (with 0-byte check) would be
ideal ?!

-- 
Marc-Andre Lemburg
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