Add PyUnicode_DecodeLocaleAndSize() and PyUnicode_DecodeLocale()

 * PyUnicode_DecodeLocaleAndSize() and PyUnicode_DecodeLocale() decode a string
   from the current locale encoding
 * _Py_char2wchar() writes an "error code" in the size argument to indicate
   if the function failed because of memory allocation failure or because of a
   decoding error. The function doesn't write the error message directly to
   stderr.
 * Fix time.strftime() (if wcsftime() is missing): decode strftime() result
   from the current locale encoding, not from the filesystem encoding.

Doc/c-api/unicode.rst

@@ -699,6 +699,39 @@ Extension modules can continue using them, as they will not be removed in Python
    throughout the interpreter whenever coercion to Unicode is needed.
 
 
+Locale Encoding
+"""""""""""""""
+
+The current locale encoding can be used to decode text from the operating
+system.
+
+.. c:function:: PyObject* PyUnicode_DecodeLocaleAndSize(const char *str, Py_ssize_t len, int surrogateescape)
+
+   Decode a string from the current locale encoding. The decoder is strict if
+   *surrogateescape* is equal to zero, otherwise it uses the
+   ``'surrogateescape'`` error handler (:pep:`383`) to escape undecodable
+   bytes. If a byte sequence can be decoded as a surrogate character and
+   *surrogateescape* is not equal to zero, the byte sequence is escaped using
+   the ``'surrogateescape'`` error handler instead of being decoded.  *str*
+   must end with a null character but cannot contain embedded null character.
+
+   .. seealso::
+
+      Use :c:func:`PyUnicode_DecodeFSDefaultAndSize` to decode a string from
+      :c:data:`Py_FileSystemDefaultEncoding` (the locale encoding read at
+      Python startup).
+
+   .. versionadded:: 3.3
+
+
+.. c:function:: PyObject* PyUnicode_DecodeLocale(const char *str, int surrogateescape)
+
+   Similar to :c:func:`PyUnicode_DecodeLocaleAndSize`, but compute the string
+   length using :c:func:`strlen`.
+
+   .. versionadded:: 3.3
+
+
 File System Encoding
 """"""""""""""""""""
 
@@ -739,6 +772,13 @@ used, passing :c:func:`PyUnicode_FSDecoder` as the conversion function:
    If :c:data:`Py_FileSystemDefaultEncoding` is not set, fall back to the
    locale encoding.
 
+   .. seealso::
+
+      :c:data:`Py_FileSystemDefaultEncoding` is initialized at startup from the
+      locale encoding and cannot be modified later. If you need to decode a
+      string from the current locale encoding, use
+      :c:func:`PyUnicode_DecodeLocaleAndSize`.
+
    .. versionchanged:: 3.2
       Use ``'strict'`` error handler on Windows.
 

Include/unicodeobject.h

@@ -1595,6 +1595,28 @@ PyAPI_FUNC(PyObject*) _PyUnicode_TransformDecimalAndSpaceToASCII(
     );
 #endif
 
+/* --- Locale encoding --------------------------------------------------- */
+
+/* Decode a string from the current locale encoding. The decoder is strict if
+   *surrogateescape* is equal to zero, otherwise it uses the 'surrogateescape'
+   error handler (PEP 383) to escape undecodable bytes. If a byte sequence can
+   be decoded as a surrogate character and *surrogateescape* is not equal to
+   zero, the byte sequence is escaped using the 'surrogateescape' error handler
+   instead of being decoded. *str* must end with a null character but cannot
+   contain embedded null character. */
+
+PyAPI_FUNC(PyObject*) PyUnicode_DecodeLocaleAndSize(
+    const char *str,
+    Py_ssize_t len,
+    int surrogateescape);
+
+/* Similar to PyUnicode_DecodeLocaleAndSize(), but compute the string
+   length using strlen(). */
+
+PyAPI_FUNC(PyObject*) PyUnicode_DecodeLocale(
+    const char *str,
+    int surrogateescape);
+
 /* --- File system encoding ---------------------------------------------- */
 
 /* ParseTuple converter: encode str objects to bytes using

Modules/_localemodule.c

@@ -42,43 +42,6 @@ PyDoc_STRVAR(locale__doc__, "Support for POSIX locales.");
 
 static PyObject *Error;
 
-/* Convert a char* to a Unicode object according to the current locale */
-static PyObject*
-str2uni(const char* s)
-{
-#ifdef HAVE_BROKEN_MBSTOWCS
-    size_t needed = strlen(s);
-#else
-    size_t needed = mbstowcs(NULL, s, 0);
-#endif
-    size_t res1;
-    wchar_t smallbuf[30];
-    wchar_t *dest;
-    PyObject *res2;
-    if (needed == (size_t)-1) {
-        PyErr_SetString(PyExc_ValueError, "Cannot convert byte to string");
-        return NULL;
-    }
-    if (needed*sizeof(wchar_t) < sizeof(smallbuf))
-        dest = smallbuf;
-    else {
-        dest = PyMem_Malloc((needed+1)*sizeof(wchar_t));
-        if (!dest)
-            return PyErr_NoMemory();
-    }
-    /* This shouldn't fail now */
-    res1 = mbstowcs(dest, s, needed+1);
-#ifdef HAVE_BROKEN_MBSTOWCS
-    assert(res1 != (size_t)-1);
-#else
-    assert(res1 == needed);
-#endif
-    res2 = PyUnicode_FromWideChar(dest, res1);
-    if (dest != smallbuf)
-        PyMem_Free(dest);
-    return res2;
-}
-
 /* support functions for formatting floating point numbers */
 
 PyDoc_STRVAR(setlocale__doc__,
@@ -149,7 +112,7 @@ PyLocale_setlocale(PyObject* self, PyObject* args)
             PyErr_SetString(Error, "unsupported locale setting");
             return NULL;
         }
-        result_object = str2uni(result);
+        result_object = PyUnicode_DecodeLocale(result, 0);
         if (!result_object)
             return NULL;
     } else {
@@ -159,7 +122,7 @@ PyLocale_setlocale(PyObject* self, PyObject* args)
             PyErr_SetString(Error, "locale query failed");
             return NULL;
         }
-        result_object = str2uni(result);
+        result_object = PyUnicode_DecodeLocale(result, 0);
     }
     return result_object;
 }
@@ -185,7 +148,7 @@ PyLocale_localeconv(PyObject* self)
        involved herein */
 
 #define RESULT_STRING(s)\
-    x = str2uni(l->s);   \
+    x = PyUnicode_DecodeLocale(l->s, 0);   \
     if (!x) goto failed;\
     PyDict_SetItemString(result, #s, x);\
     Py_XDECREF(x)
@@ -476,7 +439,7 @@ PyLocale_nl_langinfo(PyObject* self, PyObject* args)
                instead of an empty string for nl_langinfo(ERA).  */
             const char *result = nl_langinfo(item);
             result = result != NULL ? result : "";
-            return str2uni(result);
+            return PyUnicode_DecodeLocale(result, 0);
         }
     PyErr_SetString(PyExc_ValueError, "unsupported langinfo constant");
     return NULL;
@@ -495,7 +458,7 @@ PyIntl_gettext(PyObject* self, PyObject *args)
     char *in;
     if (!PyArg_ParseTuple(args, "s", &in))
         return 0;
-    return str2uni(gettext(in));
+    return PyUnicode_DecodeLocale(gettext(in), 0);
 }
 
 PyDoc_STRVAR(dgettext__doc__,
@@ -508,7 +471,7 @@ PyIntl_dgettext(PyObject* self, PyObject *args)
     char *domain, *in;
     if (!PyArg_ParseTuple(args, "zs", &domain, &in))
         return 0;
-    return str2uni(dgettext(domain, in));
+    return PyUnicode_DecodeLocale(dgettext(domain, in), 0);
 }
 
 PyDoc_STRVAR(dcgettext__doc__,
@@ -522,7 +485,7 @@ PyIntl_dcgettext(PyObject *self, PyObject *args)
     int category;
     if (!PyArg_ParseTuple(args, "zsi", &domain, &msgid, &category))
         return 0;
-    return str2uni(dcgettext(domain,msgid,category));
+    return PyUnicode_DecodeLocale(dcgettext(domain,msgid,category), 0);
 }
 
 PyDoc_STRVAR(textdomain__doc__,
@@ -540,7 +503,7 @@ PyIntl_textdomain(PyObject* self, PyObject* args)
         PyErr_SetFromErrno(PyExc_OSError);
         return NULL;
     }
-    return str2uni(domain);
+    return PyUnicode_DecodeLocale(domain, 0);
 }
 
 PyDoc_STRVAR(bindtextdomain__doc__,
@@ -572,7 +535,7 @@ PyIntl_bindtextdomain(PyObject* self,PyObject*args)
         PyErr_SetFromErrno(PyExc_OSError);
         return NULL;
     }
-    result = str2uni(current_dirname);
+    result = PyUnicode_DecodeLocale(current_dirname, 0);
     Py_XDECREF(dirname_bytes);
     return result;
 }
@@ -590,7 +553,7 @@ PyIntl_bind_textdomain_codeset(PyObject* self,PyObject*args)
         return NULL;
     codeset = bind_textdomain_codeset(domain, codeset);
     if (codeset)
-        return str2uni(codeset);
+        return PyUnicode_DecodeLocale(codeset, 0);
     Py_RETURN_NONE;
 }
 #endif

Modules/main.c

@@ -495,16 +495,13 @@ Py_Main(int argc, wchar_t **argv)
             /* Use utf-8 on Mac OS X */
             unicode = PyUnicode_FromString(p);
 #else
-            wchar_t *wchar;
-            size_t len;
-            wchar = _Py_char2wchar(p, &len);
-            if (wchar == NULL)
-                continue;
-            unicode = PyUnicode_FromWideChar(wchar, len);
-            PyMem_Free(wchar);
+            unicode = PyUnicode_DecodeLocale(p, 1);
 #endif
-            if (unicode == NULL)
+            if (unicode == NULL) {
+                /* ignore errors */
+                PyErr_Clear();
                 continue;
+            }
             PySys_AddWarnOptionUnicode(unicode);
             Py_DECREF(unicode);
         }

Modules/timemodule.c

@@ -532,7 +532,7 @@ time_strftime(PyObject *self, PyObject *args)
 #ifdef HAVE_WCSFTIME
             ret = PyUnicode_FromWideChar(outbuf, buflen);
 #else
-            ret = PyUnicode_DecodeFSDefaultAndSize(outbuf, buflen);
+            ret = PyUnicode_DecodeLocaleAndSize(outbuf, buflen, 1);
 #endif
             PyMem_Free(outbuf);
             break;
@@ -764,8 +764,8 @@ PyInit_timezone(PyObject *m) {
 #endif /* PYOS_OS2 */
 #endif
     PyModule_AddIntConstant(m, "daylight", daylight);
-    otz0 = PyUnicode_DecodeFSDefaultAndSize(tzname[0], strlen(tzname[0]));
-    otz1 = PyUnicode_DecodeFSDefaultAndSize(tzname[1], strlen(tzname[1]));
+    otz0 = PyUnicode_DecodeLocale(tzname[0], 1);
+    otz1 = PyUnicode_DecodeLocale(tzname[1], 1);
     PyModule_AddObject(m, "tzname", Py_BuildValue("(NN)", otz0, otz1));
 #else /* !HAVE_TZNAME || __GLIBC__ || __CYGWIN__*/
 #ifdef HAVE_STRUCT_TM_TM_ZONE

Objects/unicodeobject.c

@@ -3234,6 +3234,83 @@ PyUnicode_AsEncodedUnicode(PyObject *unicode,
     return NULL;
 }
 
+PyObject*
+PyUnicode_DecodeLocaleAndSize(const char *str, Py_ssize_t len,
+                              int surrogateescape)
+{
+    wchar_t smallbuf[256];
+    size_t smallbuf_len = Py_ARRAY_LENGTH(smallbuf);
+    wchar_t *wstr;
+    size_t wlen, wlen2;
+    PyObject *unicode;
+
+    if (str[len] != '\0' || len != strlen(str)) {
+        PyErr_SetString(PyExc_TypeError, "embedded null character");
+        return NULL;
+    }
+
+    if (surrogateescape)
+    {
+        wstr = _Py_char2wchar(str, &wlen);
+        if (wstr == NULL) {
+            if (wlen == (size_t)-1)
+                PyErr_NoMemory();
+            else
+                PyErr_SetFromErrno(PyExc_OSError);
+            return NULL;
+        }
+
+        unicode = PyUnicode_FromWideChar(wstr, wlen);
+        PyMem_Free(wstr);
+    }
+    else {
+#ifndef HAVE_BROKEN_MBSTOWCS
+        wlen = mbstowcs(NULL, str, 0);
+#else
+        wlen = len;
+#endif
+        if (wlen == (size_t)-1) {
+            PyErr_SetFromErrno(PyExc_OSError);
+            return NULL;
+        }
+        if (wlen+1 <= smallbuf_len) {
+            wstr = smallbuf;
+        }
+        else {
+            if (wlen > PY_SSIZE_T_MAX / sizeof(wchar_t) - 1)
+                return PyErr_NoMemory();
+
+            wstr = PyMem_Malloc((wlen+1) * sizeof(wchar_t));
+            if (!wstr)
+                return PyErr_NoMemory();
+        }
+
+        /* This shouldn't fail now */
+        wlen2 = mbstowcs(wstr, str, wlen+1);
+        if (wlen2 == (size_t)-1) {
+            if (wstr != smallbuf)
+                PyMem_Free(wstr);
+            PyErr_SetFromErrno(PyExc_OSError);
+            return NULL;
+        }
+#ifdef HAVE_BROKEN_MBSTOWCS
+        assert(wlen2 == wlen);
+#endif
+        unicode = PyUnicode_FromWideChar(wstr, wlen2);
+        if (wstr != smallbuf)
+            PyMem_Free(wstr);
+    }
+    return unicode;
+}
+
+PyObject*
+PyUnicode_DecodeLocale(const char *str, int surrogateescape)
+{
+    Py_ssize_t size = (Py_ssize_t)strlen(str);
+    return PyUnicode_DecodeLocaleAndSize(str, size, surrogateescape);
+}
+
+
 PyObject*
 PyUnicode_DecodeFSDefault(const char *s) {
     Py_ssize_t size = (Py_ssize_t)strlen(s);
@@ -3264,23 +3341,7 @@ PyUnicode_DecodeFSDefaultAndSize(const char *s, Py_ssize_t size)
                                 "surrogateescape");
     }
     else {
-        /* locale encoding with surrogateescape */
-        wchar_t *wchar;
-        PyObject *unicode;
-        size_t len;
-
-        if (s[size] != '\0' || size != strlen(s)) {
-            PyErr_SetString(PyExc_TypeError, "embedded NUL character");
-            return NULL;
-        }
-
-        wchar = _Py_char2wchar(s, &len);
-        if (wchar == NULL)
-            return PyErr_NoMemory();
-
-        unicode = PyUnicode_FromWideChar(wchar, len);
-        PyMem_Free(wchar);
-        return unicode;
+        return PyUnicode_DecodeLocaleAndSize(s, size, 1);
     }
 #endif
 }