[Python-Dev] Multibyte repr()

[Guido van Rossum]

> I saw this too.  The fix was to add a setlocale() call to
> test___all__.py.  Read my checkin comments and weep.

I told this all to Tim, and he had one comment.  The repr() function
of an 8-bit string can now return characters with the high bit set.
This was the direct cause of the failures.  It was introduced in the
following patch:

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revision 2.190
date: 2002/10/07 13:55:50;  author: loewis;  state: Exp;  lines: +68 -15
Patch #479898: Use multibyte C library for printing strings if available.
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Was this really a good idea???

--Guido van Rossum (home page: http://www.python.org/~guido/)