[Python-Dev] [Python-checkins] r87505 - in python/branches/py3k: Doc/c-api/unicode.rst Include/unicodeobject.h (original) (raw)

R. David Murray rdmurray at bitdance.com
Tue Dec 28 05:13:40 CET 2010

On Mon, 27 Dec 2010 02:49:29 +0100, victor.stinner <python-checkins at python.org> wrote:

Author: victor.stinner Date: Mon Dec 27 02:49:29 2010 New Revision: 87505

Log: Issue #9738: document encodings of unicode functions Modified: python/branches/py3k/Doc/c-api/unicode.rst python/branches/py3k/Include/unicodeobject.h Modified: python/branches/py3k/Doc/c-api/unicode.rst ============================================================================== --- python/branches/py3k/Doc/c-api/unicode.rst (original) +++ python/branches/py3k/Doc/c-api/unicode.rst Mon Dec 27 02:49:29 2010 @@ -1063,7 +1063,8 @@ .. c:function:: int PyUnicodeCompareWithASCIIString(PyObject *uni, char *string) Compare a unicode object, uni, with string and return -1, 0, 1 for less - than, equal, and greater than, respectively. + than, equal, and greater than, respectively. string is an ASCII-encoded + string (it is interpreted as ISO-8859-1).

Does it mean anything to say that an ASCII string is interpreted as ISO-8859-1? If it is ASCII-encoded it shouldn't have any bytes with the 8th bit set, leaving no room for interpretation. So presumably you mean it is (treated as) an ISO-8859-1 encoded string, despite the function name?

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