[Python-Dev] test_ucn errors ?
M.-A. Lemburg
mal@lemburg.com
Fri, 19 Jan 2001 19:48:53 +0100
Fredrik Lundh wrote:
>
> thomas wrote:
> > > I'm currently seeing a failure in test_ucn:
> > >
> > > test test_ucn crashed -- exceptions.UnicodeError: Unicode-Escape decoding
> > > error: Illegal Unicode character
> > >
> > > It looks like one of the unicode literals in test_ucn is invalid, but it's
> > > damned hard to pin down which:
> >
> > Feels to me like there's a bug in the string literal processing that
> > makes *any* string literal containing \N{...} fail during code
> > generation.
>
> I took another look at the error message: the only explanation
> I can see here is that the lookup succeeds, but the call to ucn-
> hash returns a value larger than 0x10ffff.
>
> What is Py_UCS4 set to under gcc?
Should be "unsigned int" on all modern Intel platforms.
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