PythonEngine.PyUnicode_FromString() issue

[Jacek Laskowski 57]

If the data variable contains any character outside the Latin alphabet, such as a Polish diacritical chars, the function returns nil

 

 data: AnsiString = 'ąęść';


  pObj := fPyEngine.PyUnicode_FromString(PAnsiChar(data)); <-- return nil
  fPyModule.SetVar('data', pObj); <-- then this raises an exception

How to properly pass diacritical chars in a string?

 

ps. the function has Unicode in its name, which means it should probably allow arbitrary characters

Edited 18 hours ago by Jacek Laskowski

[David Heffernan 2456]

Why are you expecting ANSI encodings to be of use? Why aren't you using Unicode, either UTF8 or UTF16. 

 

I believe the function you call expects UTF8 which of course you are not passing. Then again I'm not sure why you picked on this function to make a string. 

Edited 16 hours ago by David Heffernan

[pyscripter 793]

P4D provides a function:

 

function TPythonEngine.PyUnicodeFromString(const AString : UnicodeString) : PPyObject;