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Re: [python] Pretty-printers and addressprint
On Tuesday 10 November 2009 09:36:49 Phil Muldoon wrote:
> On 11/10/2009 08:06 AM, Paul Pluzhnikov wrote:
> >
> > Unfortunately I frequently deal with non-ascii strings, and the
> > problem just wouldn't go away :-(
> >
> > Previous threads on this subject, e.g.
> > http://sourceware.org/ml/archer/2008-q4/msg00180.html didn't appear to
> > have reached a satisfactory conclusion.
> >
> >
>
> There is a bug that tracks this now:
>
> http://sourceware.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=10705
>
> But I think (also) what you are asking for is a way to get at the
> underlying data without passing it through an encoding?
That would be useful in my opinion. Even if the proper encoding were
known, data could still be corrupted. Getting direct access to the
real data would be nice, even though it is already possible right
now using 'manual' iteration the data using a "char *" value.
Andre'