[Python-Dev] Multibyte repr() (original) (raw)

Guido van Rossum guido@python.org
Wed, 09 Oct 2002 14:50:54 -0400

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:

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.

Was this really a good idea???

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