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Author	loewis
Recipients	alexandre.vassalotti, bhy, lemburg, loewis
Date	2008-06-05.20:50:08
SpamBayes Score	0.008262365
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Message-id	<4848517E.4060701@v.loewis.de>
In-reply-to	<48485068.3030700@egenix.com>

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> How about PyUnicode_GetUTF8Buffer() or just PyUnicode_UTF8() ?! -1 > Note that the function must check the UTF-8 buffer for embedded > NUL bytes and then raise an exception if it finds one. Otherwise, > the API would silently cause truncations. PyString_AsString doesn't check for null bytes, either, and will also silently truncate. This has never been a problem, so I fail to see why it is a problem for Unicode strings.

> How about PyUnicode_GetUTF8Buffer() or just PyUnicode_UTF8() ?!

-1

> Note that the function *must* check the UTF-8 buffer for embedded
> NUL bytes and then raise an exception if it finds one. Otherwise,
> the API would silently cause truncations.

PyString_AsString doesn't check for null bytes, either, and will also
silently truncate. This has never been a problem, so I fail to see why
it is a problem for Unicode strings.

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Date	User	Action	Args
2008-06-05 20:50:09	loewis	set	spambayes_score: 0.00826237 -> 0.008262365 recipients: + loewis, lemburg, alexandre.vassalotti, bhy
2008-06-05 20:50:08	loewis	link	issue2799 messages
2008-06-05 20:50:08	loewis	create