utf-8 and ctypes

[Brendan Miller]

I'm using python 2.5.

Currently I have some python bindings written in ctypes. On the C
side, my strings are in utf-8. On the python side I use
ctypes.c_char_p to convert my strings to python strings. However, this
seems to break for non-ascii characters.

It seems that characters not in the ascii subset of UTF-8 are
discarded by c_char_p during the conversion, or at least they don't
print out when I go to print the string.

Does python not support utf-8 strings? Is there some other way I
should be doing the conversion?

Thanks,
Brendan