[issue3362] locale.getpreferredencoding() gives bus error on Mac OS X 10.4.11 PPC

Ned Deily added the comment: This was fixed by the changes for Issue6202: 2.7 (r73270) and 3.1 (r73268). They removed the use of the obsolete MacOS encoding APIs and now use standard POSIX detection. -- nosy: +ned.deily resolution: -> duplicate status: open -> closed superseder: ->

[issue3362] locale.getpreferredencoding() gives bus error on Mac OS X 10.4.11 PPC

Antoine Pitrou added the comment: Is it still reproduceable with 2.7, 3.1 or 3.2? -- ___ Python tracker ___ ___ Python-bugs-list maili

[issue3362] locale.getpreferredencoding() gives bus error on Mac OS X 10.4.11 PPC

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[issue3362] locale.getpreferredencoding() gives bus error on Mac OS X 10.4.11 PPC

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[issue3362] locale.getpreferredencoding() gives bus error on Mac OS X 10.4.11 PPC

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[issue3362] locale.getpreferredencoding() gives bus error on Mac OS X 10.4.11 PPC

Martin v. Löwis <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> added the comment: 0x27==39. It's all fine. ___ Python tracker <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> ___ ___ Python-bugs-list m

[issue3362] locale.getpreferredencoding() gives bus error on Mac OS X 10.4.11 PPC

cfr <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> added the comment: Do you happen to know why it is returning 27? Is that correct or should it be returning something else (e.g. 39)? ___ Python tracker <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> _

[issue3362] locale.getpreferredencoding() gives bus error on Mac OS X 10.4.11 PPC

Martin v. Löwis <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> added the comment: Ok, now that we have established that the user's encoding is supposed to be mac-celtic, I think I understand the problem: there simply isn't any IANA charset name for the mac-celtic encoding, so CFStringConvertEncodingToIANACharSetName doesn'

[issue3362] locale.getpreferredencoding() gives bus error on Mac OS X 10.4.11 PPC

cfr <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> added the comment: I noticed there is an issue (http://bugs.python.org/issue1276) with Japanese Python users on Macs because the relevant codec is removed in Tools/unicode/Makefile. That file also removes a number of other codecs, including Mac Celtic. I just wondered if t

[issue3362] locale.getpreferredencoding() gives bus error on Mac OS X 10.4.11 PPC

cfr <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> added the comment: It returns 27. ___ Python tracker <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> ___ ___ Python-bugs-list mailing list Unsubscrib

[issue3362] locale.getpreferredencoding() gives bus error on Mac OS X 10.4.11 PPC

cfr <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> added the comment: Just realised what I'm meant to do with it. Sorry - it is late (early, actually). Will report back when I get a chance to recompile. ___ Python tracker <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> __

[issue3362] locale.getpreferredencoding() gives bus error on Mac OS X 10.4.11 PPC

cfr <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> added the comment: Interesting. At least the "39" makes sense. I don't understand the documentation well enough to know what the "79" is about. I'm sorry but I can't work out what I should do with: printf("Encoding is %x\n", enc); Am I meant to use this in python, a s

[issue3362] locale.getpreferredencoding() gives bus error on Mac OS X 10.4.11 PPC

Martin v. Löwis <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> added the comment: Lists of possible string encodings are here: http://developer.apple.com/documentation/CoreFoundation/Reference/CFStringRef/Reference/reference.html#//apple_ref/c/tdef/CFStringBuiltInEncodings and http://developer.apple.com/documentation/Co

[issue3362] locale.getpreferredencoding() gives bus error on Mac OS X 10.4.11 PPC

cfr <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> added the comment: I admit to not understanding the code involved, but I *thought* that the problem involved cases where there *is* a preferred encoding in the environment but it is not one of those covered by: case kCFStringEncodingMacRoman: return "mac-roman"; ca

[issue3362] locale.getpreferredencoding() gives bus error on Mac OS X 10.4.11 PPC

Martin v. Löwis <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> added the comment: No, getpreferredencoding should always produce an encoding name. If the application had an idea what to use, it wouldn't have to ask. So I favor (3), or, perhaps given that OSX uses UTF-8 in many places, (5) return "UTF-8" _

[issue3362] locale.getpreferredencoding() gives bus error on Mac OS X 10.4.11 PPC

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[issue3362] locale.getpreferredencoding() gives bus error on Mac OS X 10.4.11 PPC

Antoine Pitrou <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> added the comment: locale.getpreferredencoding() should certainly not crash but the question remains of what should be the outcome. I can see several possibilities: (1) return the empty string (2) return None (3) return "ascii" (!!) (4) raise an exception (which

[issue3362] locale.getpreferredencoding() gives bus error on Mac OS X 10.4.11 PPC

cfr <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> added the comment: Altering ~/.CFUserTextEncoding so it has the contents "0:0" and then rebooting seems to prevent the crash for GUI applications, too. Would like to know how to fix this properly, of course, since I suspect that the value on my machine was probably not "0

[issue3362] locale.getpreferredencoding() gives bus error on Mac OS X 10.4.11 PPC

cfr <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> added the comment: A work-around when using python from a shell environment (e.g. from a bash shell in Terminal) is to issue export __CF_USER_TEXT_ENCODING=0x1F5:0:0 before starting python. I haven't yet worked out how to apply this to GUI apps. I tried editing ~/.MacOSX

[issue3362] locale.getpreferredencoding() gives bus error on Mac OS X 10.4.11 PPC

cfr <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> added the comment: On the off chance this might be helpful: I get the same error with python 2.4.3. Python 2.4.3 (#1, Apr 7 2006, 10:54:33) [GCC 4.0.1 (Apple Computer, Inc. build 5250)] on darwin Type "help", "copyright", "credits" or "license" for more information. >>

[issue3362] locale.getpreferredencoding() gives bus error on Mac OS X 10.4.11 PPC

cfr <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> added the comment: Thanks. I couldn't get anything from gdb which wasn't already in the crash log - likely because I don't know how to elicit the information correctly. Output from a build with the augmented _localemodule.c: ./python.exe Python 2.5.2 (r252:60911, Jul 1

[issue3362] locale.getpreferredencoding() gives bus error on Mac OS X 10.4.11 PPC

Martin v. Löwis <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> added the comment: The Python debugger (pdb) won't help here; you'ld have to use the system debugger (gdb). Please add the line printf("The value of name is %p\n", name); printf("It points to '%s'\n", name); right before the call to CFStringGetCStringPtr

[issue3362] locale.getpreferredencoding() gives bus error on Mac OS X 10.4.11 PPC

cfr <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> added the comment: I figured out how to do this: Python 2.5.2 (r252:60911, Jul 16 2008, 01:44:22) [GCC 4.0.1 (Apple Computer, Inc. build 5370)] on darwin Type "help", "copyright", "credits" or "license" for more information. >>> import pdb >>> import sys, os, locale >>>

[issue3362] locale.getpreferredencoding() gives bus error on Mac OS X 10.4.11 PPC

cfr <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> added the comment: I downloaded the current source (2.5.2) and confirmed that (1) python will build as a framework (for me) and (2) that the problem occurs for my build, too. I did not build it as a universal binary just in case that helped but mostly to speed things up.

[issue3362] locale.getpreferredencoding() gives bus error on Mac OS X 10.4.11 PPC

Martin v. Löwis <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> added the comment: It would be good to find out what the code inside PyLocale_getdefaultlocale precisely is doing. I.e. what is the value of name at that point, and is that perhaps an illegal parameter for CFStringGetCStringPtr somehow? If the debugger can't he

[issue3362] locale.getpreferredencoding() gives bus error on Mac OS X 10.4.11 PPC

cfr <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> added the comment: Please ignore the second message. I thought I was creating a second bug report and cannot figure out anyway to edit it now I realise my error. I've just copied that to a second report with an appropriate header as I am assuming the two issues I'm seeing

[issue3362] locale.getpreferredencoding() gives bus error on Mac OS X 10.4.11 PPC

Changes by cfr <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: -- title: python version incorrectly reported in crash reports on Mac OS X 10.4.11 PPC -> locale.getpreferredencoding() gives bus error on Mac OS X 10.4.11 PPC type: behavior -> crash ___ Python tracker <[EMAIL PRO

[issue3362] locale.getpreferredencoding() gives bus error on Mac OS X 10.4.11 PPC

New submission from cfr <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: Darwin Kernel Version 8.11.0: Wed Oct 10 18:26:00 PDT 2007; root:xnu-792.24.17~1/RELEASE_PPC Python 2.5.2 (r252:60911, Feb 22 2008, 07:57:53) [GCC 4.0.1 (Apple Computer, Inc. build 5363)] on darwin Type "help", "copyright", "credits" or "license" for