[Python-Dev] beta1 coming real soon (original) (raw)

"Martin v. Löwis" martin at v.loewis.de
Mon Jun 12 18:42:57 CEST 2006

Walter Dörwald wrote:

The best way to throughly test the patch is of course to check it in. ;) Is it too risky? ;) At least I'd like to get a second review of the patch.

I've reviewed it, and am likely to check it in. I notice that the patch still has problems. In particular, it is limited to "DBCS" (and SBCS) character sets in the strict sense; general "MBCS" character sets are not supported. There are a few of these, most notably the ISO-2022 ones, UTF-8, and GB18030 (can't be bothered to look up the code page numbers for them right now).

What I don't know is whether any Windows locale uses a "true" MBCS character set as its "ANSI" code page.

The approach taken in the patch could be extended to GB18030 and UTF-8 in principle, but can't possibly work for ISO-2022.

Regards, Martin

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