On Mar 24, 4:55 am, "Martin v. Löwis" <mar...@v.loewis.de> wrote: > > So, both Py_UNICODE and wchar_t are 4 bytes and since it contains 3 > > \0s after a char, printf or wprintf is only printing one letter. > > No. printf indeed will see a terminating character. However, wprintf > should correctly know that a wchar_t has four bytes per character, > and print it correctly. Make sure to use %ls to print wchar_t arrays; > %s would print multi-byte character strings. > > > I need to further process the data and those libraries will need the > > data in UCS2 format (2 bytes), otherwise they fail. > > Are you absolutely sure about that? Why does that library expect > UCS-2, when you system's wchar_t is four bytes? > > In any case, do what MAL told you: use the UCS-2 codec to convert > the Unicode string to a 2-bytes-per-char byte string. The PyObject > you get from the conversion is a byte string object; use > PyString_AsStringAndSize to get to the actual bytes. > > Regards, > Martin
Thanks Marc and Martin, my preliminary trials are showing positive results with this method. - Abhigyan -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
