Marc-Andre Lemburg <m...@egenix.com> added the comment: STINNER Victor wrote: > > New submission from STINNER Victor <victor.stin...@haypocalc.com>: > > PyUnicode_AsWideChar() doesn't merge surrogate pairs on a system with 32 bits > wchar_t and Python compiled in narrow mode (sizeof(wchar_t) == 4 and > sizeof(Py_UNICODE) == 2) => see issue #8670. > > It is not easy to fix this problem because the callers of > PyUnicode_AsWideChar() suppose that the output (wide character) string has > the same length (in character) than the input (PyUnicode) string (suppose > that sizeof(wchar_t) == sizeof(Py_UNICODE)). And PyUnicode_AsWideChar() > doesn't write nul character at the end if the output string is truncated. > > To prepare this change, a new PyUnicode_AsWideCharString() function would > help because it does compute the size of the output buffer (whereas > PyUnicode_AsWideChar() requires the output buffer in an argument).
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