Chardet, file, ... and the Flexible String Representation

[random832 at fastmail.us]

On Fri, Sep 6, 2013, at 13:04, Chris Angelico wrote:
> On Sat, Sep 7, 2013 at 2:59 AM,  <random832 at fastmail.us> wrote:
> > Incidentally, how does all this interact with ctypes unicode_buffers,
> > which slice as strings and must be UTF-16 on windows? This was fine
> > pre-FSR when unicode objects were UTF-16, but I'm not sure how it would
> > work now.
> 
> That would be pre-FSR *with a Narrow build*, which was the default on
> Windows but not everywhere. But I don't know or use ctypes, so an
> answer to your actual question will have to come from someone else.

I did a couple tests - it works as well as can be expected for reading,
but completely breaks for writing (due to sequence size checks not
matching)