I didn't see a bug open, so I opened one:
http://www.codeplex.com/IronPython/WorkItem/View.aspx?WorkItemId=14104
Thanks,
Pat
On Nov 24, 2007 3:54 PM, Dino Viehland <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> I think the construction w/ characters > 0x80 is a bug. But the returning of
> unicode vs. 8-bit strings is just a display issue. IronPython only has
> unicode strings and is one of the big differences between CPython and
> IronPython. If you haven't already I'll open a bug when I'm back after
> Thanksgiving.
>
> ________________________________________
> From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Patrick Dubroy [EMAIL
> PROTECTED]
> Sent: Wednesday, November 21, 2007 12:18 PM
> To: users@lists.ironpython.com
> Subject: [IronPython] Problems with 8-bit strings
>
>
> Hi,
>
> I've noticed that in the latest version of IronPython (2.0A6), I
> noticed some weird behaviour with 8-bit strings:
>
> IronPython console: IronPython 2.0A6 (2.0.11102.00) on .NET 2.0.50727.1378
> Copyright (c) Microsoft Corporation. All rights reserved.
> >>> str("\x7e")
> '~'
> >>> str("\x7f")
> u'\x7f'
> >>> str("\x80")
> u'\x80'
> >>> str("\x81")
> Traceback (most recent call last):
> File , line 0, in ##23
> File mscorlib, line unknown, in GetString
> File mscorlib, line unknown, in GetChars
> File mscorlib, line unknown, in Fallback
> File mscorlib, line unknown, in Throw
> UnicodeDecodeError: Unable to translate bytes [81] at index 0 from
> specified code page to Unicode.
>
> The first problem is that if the string contains characters 127 (0x7F)
> or 128 (0x80), str() will return a Unicode string rather than an 8-bit
> string. CPython, on the other hand, returns a standard 8-bit string
> for both of those cases. Then, if the string contains any bytes
> greater than 128, it throws an exception. CPython, on the other hand,
> is happy to have bytes up to 0xFF in an 8-bit string.
>
> Is this a known issue? Should I open a bug?
>
> Pat
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