[Python-Dev] [Python-checkins] cpython: _PyImport_LoadDynamicModule() encodes the module name explicitly to ASCII

[Michael Urman]

On Mon, May 9, 2011 at 23:09, Neil Hodgson <nyamatongwe at gmail.com> wrote:
> Michael Urman:
>
>> I'm not convinced this is correct for this case. GetProcAddress takes
>> an "ANSI" string, meaning while it could theoretically use UTF-8, in
>> practice I doubt it uses anything outside of ASCII safely. So while
>> the name of the library would be encoded in UTF-16, the name of the
>> function loaded from the library would not be.
>
>   Yes you are right:
> http://scintilla.org/NarrowName.png
>
>   Neil
>

That screenshot seems to show UTF-8 is being used. This may just be
the literal bytes in the .c file, but could it be something more
dependable?

http://unicode.org/cgi-bin/GetUnihanData.pl?codepoint=6728