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-rw-r--r--Doc/using/cmdline.rst36
-rw-r--r--Doc/whatsnew/3.7.rst45
-rw-r--r--Lib/test/support/script_helper.py56
-rw-r--r--Lib/test/test_c_locale_coercion.py262
-rw-r--r--Lib/test/test_capi.py35
-rw-r--r--Lib/test/test_cmd_line.py6
-rw-r--r--Lib/test/test_subprocess.py3
-rw-r--r--Lib/test/test_sys.py1
-rw-r--r--Misc/NEWS5
-rw-r--r--Programs/python.c37
-rw-r--r--Python/pylifecycle.c174
-rwxr-xr-xconfigure54
-rw-r--r--configure.ac34
-rw-r--r--pyconfig.h.in6
14 files changed, 699 insertions, 55 deletions
diff --git a/Doc/using/cmdline.rst b/Doc/using/cmdline.rst
index 40a06b9..920d5c0 100644
--- a/Doc/using/cmdline.rst
+++ b/Doc/using/cmdline.rst
@@ -713,6 +713,42 @@ conflict.
.. versionadded:: 3.6
+
+.. envvar:: PYTHONCOERCECLOCALE
+
+ If set to the value ``0``, causes the main Python command line application
+ to skip coercing the legacy ASCII-based C locale to a more capable UTF-8
+ based alternative. Note that this setting is checked even when the
+ :option:`-E` or :option:`-I` options are used, as it is handled prior to
+ the processing of command line options.
+
+ If this variable is *not* set, or is set to a value other than ``0``, and
+ the current locale reported for the ``LC_CTYPE`` category is the default
+ ``C`` locale, then the Python CLI will attempt to configure the following
+ locales for the ``LC_CTYPE`` category in the order listed before loading the
+ interpreter runtime:
+
+ * ``C.UTF-8``
+ * ``C.utf8``
+ * ``UTF-8``
+
+ If setting one of these locale categories succeeds, then the ``LC_CTYPE``
+ environment variable will also be set accordingly in the current process
+ environment before the Python runtime is initialized. This ensures the
+ updated setting is seen in subprocesses, as well as in operations that
+ query the environment rather than the current C locale (such as Python's
+ own :func:`locale.getdefaultlocale`).
+
+ Configuring one of these locales (either explicitly or via the above
+ implicit locale coercion) will automatically set the error handler for
+ :data:`sys.stdin` and :data:`sys.stdout` to ``surrogateescape``. This
+ behavior can be overridden using :envvar:`PYTHONIOENCODING` as usual.
+
+ Availability: \*nix
+
+ .. versionadded:: 3.7
+ See :pep:`538` for more details.
+
Debug-mode variables
~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
diff --git a/Doc/whatsnew/3.7.rst b/Doc/whatsnew/3.7.rst
index 3df3093..6074781 100644
--- a/Doc/whatsnew/3.7.rst
+++ b/Doc/whatsnew/3.7.rst
@@ -70,6 +70,51 @@ Summary -- Release highlights
New Features
============
+.. _whatsnew37-pep538:
+
+PEP 538: Legacy C Locale Coercion
+---------------------------------
+
+An ongoing challenge within the Python 3 series has been determining a sensible
+default strategy for handling the "7-bit ASCII" text encoding assumption
+currently implied by the use of the default C locale on non-Windows platforms.
+
+:pep:`538` updates the default interpreter command line interface to
+automatically coerce that locale to an available UTF-8 based locale as
+described in the documentation of the new :envvar:`PYTHONCOERCECLOCALE`
+environment variable. Automatically setting ``LC_CTYPE`` this way means that
+both the core interpreter and locale-aware C extensions (such as
+:mod:`readline`) will assume the use of UTF-8 as the default text encoding,
+rather than ASCII.
+
+The platform support definition in :pep:`11` has also been updated to limit
+full text handling support to suitably configured non-ASCII based locales.
+
+As part of this change, the default error handler for ``stdin`` and ``stdout``
+is now ``surrogateescape`` (rather than ``strict``) when using any of the
+defined coercion target locales (currently ``C.UTF-8``, ``C.utf8``, and
+``UTF-8``). The default error handler for ``stderr`` continues to be
+``backslashreplace``, regardless of locale.
+
+.. note::
+
+ In the current implementation, a warning message is printed directly to
+ ``stderr`` even for successful implicit locale coercion. This gives
+ redistributors and system integrators the opportunity to determine if they
+ should be making an environmental change to avoid the need for implicit
+ coercion at the Python interpreter level.
+
+ However, it's not clear that this is going to be the best approach for
+ the final 3.7.0 release, and we may end up deciding to disable the warning
+ by default and provide some way of opting into it at runtime or build time.
+
+ Concrete examples of use cases where it would be preferrable to disable the
+ warning by default can be noted on :issue:`30565`.
+
+.. seealso::
+
+ :pep:`538` -- Coercing the legacy C locale to a UTF-8 based locale
+ PEP written and implemented by Nick Coghlan.
Other Language Changes
diff --git a/Lib/test/support/script_helper.py b/Lib/test/support/script_helper.py
index 1e74647..b3ac848 100644
--- a/Lib/test/support/script_helper.py
+++ b/Lib/test/support/script_helper.py
@@ -48,8 +48,35 @@ def interpreter_requires_environment():
return __cached_interp_requires_environment
-_PythonRunResult = collections.namedtuple("_PythonRunResult",
- ("rc", "out", "err"))
+class _PythonRunResult(collections.namedtuple("_PythonRunResult",
+ ("rc", "out", "err"))):
+ """Helper for reporting Python subprocess run results"""
+ def fail(self, cmd_line):
+ """Provide helpful details about failed subcommand runs"""
+ # Limit to 80 lines to ASCII characters
+ maxlen = 80 * 100
+ out, err = self.out, self.err
+ if len(out) > maxlen:
+ out = b'(... truncated stdout ...)' + out[-maxlen:]
+ if len(err) > maxlen:
+ err = b'(... truncated stderr ...)' + err[-maxlen:]
+ out = out.decode('ascii', 'replace').rstrip()
+ err = err.decode('ascii', 'replace').rstrip()
+ raise AssertionError("Process return code is %d\n"
+ "command line: %r\n"
+ "\n"
+ "stdout:\n"
+ "---\n"
+ "%s\n"
+ "---\n"
+ "\n"
+ "stderr:\n"
+ "---\n"
+ "%s\n"
+ "---"
+ % (self.rc, cmd_line,
+ out,
+ err))
# Executing the interpreter in a subprocess
@@ -107,30 +134,7 @@ def run_python_until_end(*args, **env_vars):
def _assert_python(expected_success, *args, **env_vars):
res, cmd_line = run_python_until_end(*args, **env_vars)
if (res.rc and expected_success) or (not res.rc and not expected_success):
- # Limit to 80 lines to ASCII characters
- maxlen = 80 * 100
- out, err = res.out, res.err
- if len(out) > maxlen:
- out = b'(... truncated stdout ...)' + out[-maxlen:]
- if len(err) > maxlen:
- err = b'(... truncated stderr ...)' + err[-maxlen:]
- out = out.decode('ascii', 'replace').rstrip()
- err = err.decode('ascii', 'replace').rstrip()
- raise AssertionError("Process return code is %d\n"
- "command line: %r\n"
- "\n"
- "stdout:\n"
- "---\n"
- "%s\n"
- "---\n"
- "\n"
- "stderr:\n"
- "---\n"
- "%s\n"
- "---"
- % (res.rc, cmd_line,
- out,
- err))
+ res.fail(cmd_line)
return res
def assert_python_ok(*args, **env_vars):
diff --git a/Lib/test/test_c_locale_coercion.py b/Lib/test/test_c_locale_coercion.py
new file mode 100644
index 0000000..c14d820
--- /dev/null
+++ b/Lib/test/test_c_locale_coercion.py
@@ -0,0 +1,262 @@
+# Tests the attempted automatic coercion of the C locale to a UTF-8 locale
+
+import unittest
+import os
+import sys
+import sysconfig
+import shutil
+import subprocess
+from collections import namedtuple
+
+import test.support
+from test.support.script_helper import (
+ run_python_until_end,
+ interpreter_requires_environment,
+)
+
+# In order to get the warning messages to match up as expected, the candidate
+# order here must much the target locale order in Python/pylifecycle.c
+_C_UTF8_LOCALES = ("C.UTF-8", "C.utf8", "UTF-8")
+
+# There's no reliable cross-platform way of checking locale alias
+# lists, so the only way of knowing which of these locales will work
+# is to try them with locale.setlocale(). We do that in a subprocess
+# to avoid altering the locale of the test runner.
+def _set_locale_in_subprocess(locale_name):
+ cmd_fmt = "import locale; print(locale.setlocale(locale.LC_CTYPE, '{}'))"
+ cmd = cmd_fmt.format(locale_name)
+ result, py_cmd = run_python_until_end("-c", cmd, __isolated=True)
+ return result.rc == 0
+
+_EncodingDetails = namedtuple("EncodingDetails",
+ "fsencoding stdin_info stdout_info stderr_info")
+
+class EncodingDetails(_EncodingDetails):
+ CHILD_PROCESS_SCRIPT = ";".join([
+ "import sys",
+ "print(sys.getfilesystemencoding())",
+ "print(sys.stdin.encoding + ':' + sys.stdin.errors)",
+ "print(sys.stdout.encoding + ':' + sys.stdout.errors)",
+ "print(sys.stderr.encoding + ':' + sys.stderr.errors)",
+ ])
+
+ @classmethod
+ def get_expected_details(cls, expected_fsencoding):
+ """Returns expected child process details for a given encoding"""
+ _stream = expected_fsencoding + ":{}"
+ # stdin and stdout should use surrogateescape either because the
+ # coercion triggered, or because the C locale was detected
+ stream_info = 2*[_stream.format("surrogateescape")]
+ # stderr should always use backslashreplace
+ stream_info.append(_stream.format("backslashreplace"))
+ return dict(cls(expected_fsencoding, *stream_info)._asdict())
+
+ @staticmethod
+ def _handle_output_variations(data):
+ """Adjust the output to handle platform specific idiosyncrasies
+
+ * Some platforms report ASCII as ANSI_X3.4-1968
+ * Some platforms report ASCII as US-ASCII
+ * Some platforms report UTF-8 instead of utf-8
+ """
+ data = data.replace(b"ANSI_X3.4-1968", b"ascii")
+ data = data.replace(b"US-ASCII", b"ascii")
+ data = data.lower()
+ return data
+
+ @classmethod
+ def get_child_details(cls, env_vars):
+ """Retrieves fsencoding and standard stream details from a child process
+
+ Returns (encoding_details, stderr_lines):
+
+ - encoding_details: EncodingDetails for eager decoding
+ - stderr_lines: result of calling splitlines() on the stderr output
+
+ The child is run in isolated mode if the current interpreter supports
+ that.
+ """
+ result, py_cmd = run_python_until_end(
+ "-c", cls.CHILD_PROCESS_SCRIPT,
+ __isolated=True,
+ **env_vars
+ )
+ if not result.rc == 0:
+ result.fail(py_cmd)
+ # All subprocess outputs in this test case should be pure ASCII
+ adjusted_output = cls._handle_output_variations(result.out)
+ stdout_lines = adjusted_output.decode("ascii").rstrip().splitlines()
+ child_encoding_details = dict(cls(*stdout_lines)._asdict())
+ stderr_lines = result.err.decode("ascii").rstrip().splitlines()
+ return child_encoding_details, stderr_lines
+
+
+class _ChildProcessEncodingTestCase(unittest.TestCase):
+ # Base class to check for expected encoding details in a child process
+
+ def _check_child_encoding_details(self,
+ env_vars,
+ expected_fsencoding,
+ expected_warning):
+ """Check the C locale handling for the given process environment
+
+ Parameters:
+ expected_fsencoding: the encoding the child is expected to report
+ allow_c_locale: setting to use for PYTHONALLOWCLOCALE
+ None: don't set the variable at all
+ str: the value set in the child's environment
+ """
+ result = EncodingDetails.get_child_details(env_vars)
+ encoding_details, stderr_lines = result
+ self.assertEqual(encoding_details,
+ EncodingDetails.get_expected_details(
+ expected_fsencoding))
+ self.assertEqual(stderr_lines, expected_warning)
+
+# Details of the shared library warning emitted at runtime
+LIBRARY_C_LOCALE_WARNING = (
+ "Python runtime initialized with LC_CTYPE=C (a locale with default ASCII "
+ "encoding), which may cause Unicode compatibility problems. Using C.UTF-8, "
+ "C.utf8, or UTF-8 (if available) as alternative Unicode-compatible "
+ "locales is recommended."
+)
+
+@unittest.skipUnless(sysconfig.get_config_var("PY_WARN_ON_C_LOCALE"),
+ "C locale runtime warning disabled at build time")
+class LocaleWarningTests(_ChildProcessEncodingTestCase):
+ # Test warning emitted when running in the C locale
+
+ def test_library_c_locale_warning(self):
+ self.maxDiff = None
+ for locale_to_set in ("C", "POSIX", "invalid.ascii"):
+ var_dict = {
+ "LC_ALL": locale_to_set
+ }
+ with self.subTest(forced_locale=locale_to_set):
+ self._check_child_encoding_details(var_dict,
+ "ascii",
+ [LIBRARY_C_LOCALE_WARNING])
+
+# Details of the CLI locale coercion warning emitted at runtime
+CLI_COERCION_WARNING_FMT = (
+ "Python detected LC_CTYPE=C: LC_CTYPE coerced to {} (set another locale "
+ "or PYTHONCOERCECLOCALE=0 to disable this locale coercion behavior)."
+)
+
+class _LocaleCoercionTargetsTestCase(_ChildProcessEncodingTestCase):
+ # Base class for test cases that rely on coercion targets being defined
+
+ available_targets = []
+ targets_required = True
+
+ @classmethod
+ def setUpClass(cls):
+ first_target_locale = None
+ available_targets = cls.available_targets
+ # Find the target locales available in the current system
+ for target_locale in _C_UTF8_LOCALES:
+ if _set_locale_in_subprocess(target_locale):
+ available_targets.append(target_locale)
+ if first_target_locale is None:
+ first_target_locale = target_locale
+ if cls.targets_required and not available_targets:
+ raise unittest.SkipTest("No C-with-UTF-8 locale available")
+ # Expect coercion to use the first available locale
+ warning_msg = CLI_COERCION_WARNING_FMT.format(first_target_locale)
+ cls.EXPECTED_COERCION_WARNING = warning_msg
+
+
+class LocaleConfigurationTests(_LocaleCoercionTargetsTestCase):
+ # Test explicit external configuration via the process environment
+
+ def test_external_target_locale_configuration(self):
+ # Explicitly setting a target locale should give the same behaviour as
+ # is seen when implicitly coercing to that target locale
+ self.maxDiff = None
+
+ expected_warning = []
+ expected_fsencoding = "utf-8"
+
+ base_var_dict = {
+ "LANG": "",
+ "LC_CTYPE": "",
+ "LC_ALL": "",
+ }
+ for env_var in ("LANG", "LC_CTYPE"):
+ for locale_to_set in self.available_targets:
+ with self.subTest(env_var=env_var,
+ configured_locale=locale_to_set):
+ var_dict = base_var_dict.copy()
+ var_dict[env_var] = locale_to_set
+ self._check_child_encoding_details(var_dict,
+ expected_fsencoding,
+ expected_warning)
+
+
+
+@test.support.cpython_only
+@unittest.skipUnless(sysconfig.get_config_var("PY_COERCE_C_LOCALE"),
+ "C locale coercion disabled at build time")
+class LocaleCoercionTests(_LocaleCoercionTargetsTestCase):
+ # Test implicit reconfiguration of the environment during CLI startup
+
+ def _check_c_locale_coercion(self, expected_fsencoding, coerce_c_locale):
+ """Check the C locale handling for various configurations
+
+ Parameters:
+ expected_fsencoding: the encoding the child is expected to report
+ allow_c_locale: setting to use for PYTHONALLOWCLOCALE
+ None: don't set the variable at all
+ str: the value set in the child's environment
+ """
+
+ # Check for expected warning on stderr if C locale is coerced
+ self.maxDiff = None
+
+ expected_warning = []
+ if coerce_c_locale != "0":
+ expected_warning.append(self.EXPECTED_COERCION_WARNING)
+
+ base_var_dict = {
+ "LANG": "",
+ "LC_CTYPE": "",
+ "LC_ALL": "",
+ }
+ for env_var in ("LANG", "LC_CTYPE"):
+ for locale_to_set in ("", "C", "POSIX", "invalid.ascii"):
+ with self.subTest(env_var=env_var,
+ nominal_locale=locale_to_set,
+ PYTHONCOERCECLOCALE=coerce_c_locale):
+ var_dict = base_var_dict.copy()
+ var_dict[env_var] = locale_to_set
+ if coerce_c_locale is not None:
+ var_dict["PYTHONCOERCECLOCALE"] = coerce_c_locale
+ self._check_child_encoding_details(var_dict,
+ expected_fsencoding,
+ expected_warning)
+
+ def test_test_PYTHONCOERCECLOCALE_not_set(self):
+ # This should coerce to the first available target locale by default
+ self._check_c_locale_coercion("utf-8", coerce_c_locale=None)
+
+ def test_PYTHONCOERCECLOCALE_not_zero(self):
+ # *Any* string other that "0" is considered "set" for our purposes
+ # and hence should result in the locale coercion being enabled
+ for setting in ("", "1", "true", "false"):
+ self._check_c_locale_coercion("utf-8", coerce_c_locale=setting)
+
+ def test_PYTHONCOERCECLOCALE_set_to_zero(self):
+ # The setting "0" should result in the locale coercion being disabled
+ self._check_c_locale_coercion("ascii", coerce_c_locale="0")
+
+
+def test_main():
+ test.support.run_unittest(
+ LocaleConfigurationTests,
+ LocaleCoercionTests,
+ LocaleWarningTests
+ )
+ test.support.reap_children()
+
+if __name__ == "__main__":
+ test_main()
diff --git a/Lib/test/test_capi.py b/Lib/test/test_capi.py
index 8ac8af9..c4a9766 100644
--- a/Lib/test/test_capi.py
+++ b/Lib/test/test_capi.py
@@ -371,14 +371,21 @@ class EmbeddingTests(unittest.TestCase):
def tearDown(self):
os.chdir(self.oldcwd)
- def run_embedded_interpreter(self, *args):
+ def run_embedded_interpreter(self, *args, env=None):
"""Runs a test in the embedded interpreter"""
cmd = [self.test_exe]
cmd.extend(args)
+ if env is not None and sys.platform == 'win32':
+ # Windows requires at least the SYSTEMROOT environment variable to
+ # start Python.
+ env = env.copy()
+ env['SYSTEMROOT'] = os.environ['SYSTEMROOT']
+
p = subprocess.Popen(cmd,
stdout=subprocess.PIPE,
stderr=subprocess.PIPE,
- universal_newlines=True)
+ universal_newlines=True,
+ env=env)
(out, err) = p.communicate()
self.assertEqual(p.returncode, 0,
"bad returncode %d, stderr is %r" %
@@ -471,26 +478,16 @@ class EmbeddingTests(unittest.TestCase):
self.assertNotEqual(sub.tstate, main.tstate)
self.assertNotEqual(sub.modules, main.modules)
- @staticmethod
- def _get_default_pipe_encoding():
- rp, wp = os.pipe()
- try:
- with os.fdopen(wp, 'w') as w:
- default_pipe_encoding = w.encoding
- finally:
- os.close(rp)
- return default_pipe_encoding
-
def test_forced_io_encoding(self):
# Checks forced configuration of embedded interpreter IO streams
- out, err = self.run_embedded_interpreter("forced_io_encoding")
- if support.verbose:
+ env = {"PYTHONIOENCODING": "utf-8:surrogateescape"}
+ out, err = self.run_embedded_interpreter("forced_io_encoding", env=env)
+ if support.verbose > 1:
print()
print(out)
print(err)
- expected_errors = sys.__stdout__.errors
- expected_stdin_encoding = sys.__stdin__.encoding
- expected_pipe_encoding = self._get_default_pipe_encoding()
+ expected_stream_encoding = "utf-8"
+ expected_errors = "surrogateescape"
expected_output = '\n'.join([
"--- Use defaults ---",
"Expected encoding: default",
@@ -517,8 +514,8 @@ class EmbeddingTests(unittest.TestCase):
"stdout: latin-1:replace",
"stderr: latin-1:backslashreplace"])
expected_output = expected_output.format(
- in_encoding=expected_stdin_encoding,
- out_encoding=expected_pipe_encoding,
+ in_encoding=expected_stream_encoding,
+ out_encoding=expected_stream_encoding,
errors=expected_errors)
# This is useful if we ever trip over odd platform behaviour
self.maxDiff = None
diff --git a/Lib/test/test_cmd_line.py b/Lib/test/test_cmd_line.py
index 5f96d61..3e20427 100644
--- a/Lib/test/test_cmd_line.py
+++ b/Lib/test/test_cmd_line.py
@@ -8,8 +8,9 @@ import sys
import subprocess
import tempfile
from test.support import script_helper, is_android
-from test.support.script_helper import (spawn_python, kill_python, assert_python_ok,
- assert_python_failure)
+from test.support.script_helper import (
+ spawn_python, kill_python, assert_python_ok, assert_python_failure
+)
# XXX (ncoghlan): Move to script_helper and make consistent with run_python
@@ -150,6 +151,7 @@ class CmdLineTest(unittest.TestCase):
env = os.environ.copy()
# Use C locale to get ascii for the locale encoding
env['LC_ALL'] = 'C'
+ env['PYTHONCOERCECLOCALE'] = '0'
code = (
b'import locale; '
b'print(ascii("' + undecodable + b'"), '
diff --git a/Lib/test/test_subprocess.py b/Lib/test/test_subprocess.py
index 7fabe6a..52b05c1 100644
--- a/Lib/test/test_subprocess.py
+++ b/Lib/test/test_subprocess.py
@@ -642,7 +642,8 @@ class ProcessTestCase(BaseTestCase):
# on adding even when the environment in exec is empty.
# Gentoo sandboxes also force LD_PRELOAD and SANDBOX_* to exist.
return ('VERSIONER' in n or '__CF' in n or # MacOS
- n == 'LD_PRELOAD' or n.startswith('SANDBOX')) # Gentoo
+ n == 'LD_PRELOAD' or n.startswith('SANDBOX') or # Gentoo
+ n == 'LC_CTYPE') # Locale coercion triggered
with subprocess.Popen([sys.executable, "-c",
'import os; print(list(os.environ.keys()))'],
diff --git a/Lib/test/test_sys.py b/Lib/test/test_sys.py
index ed78e2a..3844812 100644
--- a/Lib/test/test_sys.py
+++ b/Lib/test/test_sys.py
@@ -682,6 +682,7 @@ class SysModuleTest(unittest.TestCase):
# Force the POSIX locale
env = os.environ.copy()
env["LC_ALL"] = "C"
+ env["PYTHONCOERCECLOCALE"] = "0"
code = '\n'.join((
'import sys',
'def dump(name):',
diff --git a/Misc/NEWS b/Misc/NEWS
index e58de82..8cbd463 100644
--- a/Misc/NEWS
+++ b/Misc/NEWS
@@ -10,6 +10,11 @@ What's New in Python 3.7.0 alpha 1?
Core and Builtins
-----------------
+- bpo-28180: Implement PEP 538 (legacy C locale coercion). This means that when
+ a suitable coercion target locale is available, both the core interpreter and
+ locale-aware C extensions will assume the use of UTF-8 as the default text
+ encoding, rather than ASCII.
+
- bpo-30486: Allows setting cell values for __closure__. Patch by Lisa Roach.
- bpo-30537: itertools.islice now accepts integer-like objects (having
diff --git a/Programs/python.c b/Programs/python.c
index a7afbc7..03f8295 100644
--- a/Programs/python.c
+++ b/Programs/python.c
@@ -15,6 +15,21 @@ wmain(int argc, wchar_t **argv)
}
#else
+/* Access private pylifecycle helper API to better handle the legacy C locale
+ *
+ * The legacy C locale assumes ASCII as the default text encoding, which
+ * causes problems not only for the CPython runtime, but also other
+ * components like GNU readline.
+ *
+ * Accordingly, when the CLI detects it, it attempts to coerce it to a
+ * more capable UTF-8 based alternative.
+ *
+ * See the documentation of the PYTHONCOERCECLOCALE setting for more details.
+ *
+ */
+extern int _Py_LegacyLocaleDetected(void);
+extern void _Py_CoerceLegacyLocale(void);
+
int
main(int argc, char **argv)
{
@@ -25,7 +40,11 @@ main(int argc, char **argv)
char *oldloc;
/* Force malloc() allocator to bootstrap Python */
+#ifdef Py_DEBUG
+ (void)_PyMem_SetupAllocators("malloc_debug");
+# else
(void)_PyMem_SetupAllocators("malloc");
+# endif
argv_copy = (wchar_t **)PyMem_RawMalloc(sizeof(wchar_t*) * (argc+1));
argv_copy2 = (wchar_t **)PyMem_RawMalloc(sizeof(wchar_t*) * (argc+1));
@@ -49,7 +68,21 @@ main(int argc, char **argv)
return 1;
}
+#ifdef __ANDROID__
+ /* Passing "" to setlocale() on Android requests the C locale rather
+ * than checking environment variables, so request C.UTF-8 explicitly
+ */
+ setlocale(LC_ALL, "C.UTF-8");
+#else
+ /* Reconfigure the locale to the default for this process */
setlocale(LC_ALL, "");
+#endif
+
+ if (_Py_LegacyLocaleDetected()) {
+ _Py_CoerceLegacyLocale();
+ }
+
+ /* Convert from char to wchar_t based on the locale settings */
for (i = 0; i < argc; i++) {
argv_copy[i] = Py_DecodeLocale(argv[i], NULL);
if (!argv_copy[i]) {
@@ -70,7 +103,11 @@ main(int argc, char **argv)
/* Force again malloc() allocator to release memory blocks allocated
before Py_Main() */
+#ifdef Py_DEBUG
+ (void)_PyMem_SetupAllocators("malloc_debug");
+# else
(void)_PyMem_SetupAllocators("malloc");
+# endif
for (i = 0; i < argc; i++) {
PyMem_RawFree(argv_copy2[i]);
diff --git a/Python/pylifecycle.c b/Python/pylifecycle.c
index ec26824..b7c9822 100644
--- a/Python/pylifecycle.c
+++ b/Python/pylifecycle.c
@@ -178,6 +178,7 @@ Py_SetStandardStreamEncoding(const char *encoding, const char *errors)
return 0;
}
+
/* Global initializations. Can be undone by Py_FinalizeEx(). Don't
call this twice without an intervening Py_FinalizeEx() call. When
initializations fail, a fatal error is issued and the function does
@@ -330,6 +331,159 @@ initexternalimport(PyInterpreterState *interp)
Py_DECREF(value);
}
+/* Helper functions to better handle the legacy C locale
+ *
+ * The legacy C locale assumes ASCII as the default text encoding, which
+ * causes problems not only for the CPython runtime, but also other
+ * components like GNU readline.
+ *
+ * Accordingly, when the CLI detects it, it attempts to coerce it to a
+ * more capable UTF-8 based alternative as follows:
+ *
+ * if (_Py_LegacyLocaleDetected()) {
+ * _Py_CoerceLegacyLocale();
+ * }
+ *
+ * See the documentation of the PYTHONCOERCECLOCALE setting for more details.
+ *
+ * Locale coercion also impacts the default error handler for the standard
+ * streams: while the usual default is "strict", the default for the legacy
+ * C locale and for any of the coercion target locales is "surrogateescape".
+ */
+
+int
+_Py_LegacyLocaleDetected(void)
+{
+#ifndef MS_WINDOWS
+ /* On non-Windows systems, the C locale is considered a legacy locale */
+ const char *ctype_loc = setlocale(LC_CTYPE, NULL);
+ return ctype_loc != NULL && strcmp(ctype_loc, "C") == 0;
+#else
+ /* Windows uses code pages instead of locales, so no locale is legacy */
+ return 0;
+#endif
+}
+
+typedef struct _CandidateLocale {
+ const char *locale_name; /* The locale to try as a coercion target */
+} _LocaleCoercionTarget;
+
+static _LocaleCoercionTarget _TARGET_LOCALES[] = {
+ {"C.UTF-8"},
+ {"C.utf8"},
+ {"UTF-8"},
+ {NULL}
+};
+
+static char *
+get_default_standard_stream_error_handler(void)
+{
+ const char *ctype_loc = setlocale(LC_CTYPE, NULL);
+ if (ctype_loc != NULL) {
+ /* "surrogateescape" is the default in the legacy C locale */
+ if (strcmp(ctype_loc, "C") == 0) {
+ return "surrogateescape";
+ }
+
+#ifdef PY_COERCE_C_LOCALE
+ /* "surrogateescape" is the default in locale coercion target locales */
+ const _LocaleCoercionTarget *target = NULL;
+ for (target = _TARGET_LOCALES; target->locale_name; target++) {
+ if (strcmp(ctype_loc, target->locale_name) == 0) {
+ return "surrogateescape";
+ }
+ }
+#endif
+ }
+
+ /* Otherwise return NULL to request the typical default error handler */
+ return NULL;
+}
+
+#ifdef PY_COERCE_C_LOCALE
+static const char *_C_LOCALE_COERCION_WARNING =
+ "Python detected LC_CTYPE=C: LC_CTYPE coerced to %.20s (set another locale "
+ "or PYTHONCOERCECLOCALE=0 to disable this locale coercion behavior).\n";
+
+static void
+_coerce_default_locale_settings(const _LocaleCoercionTarget *target)
+{
+ const char *newloc = target->locale_name;
+
+ /* Reset locale back to currently configured defaults */
+ setlocale(LC_ALL, "");
+
+ /* Set the relevant locale environment variable */
+ if (setenv("LC_CTYPE", newloc, 1)) {
+ fprintf(stderr,
+ "Error setting LC_CTYPE, skipping C locale coercion\n");
+ return;
+ }
+ fprintf(stderr, _C_LOCALE_COERCION_WARNING, newloc);
+
+ /* Reconfigure with the overridden environment variables */
+ setlocale(LC_ALL, "");
+}
+#endif
+
+void
+_Py_CoerceLegacyLocale(void)
+{
+#ifdef PY_COERCE_C_LOCALE
+ /* We ignore the Python -E and -I flags here, as the CLI needs to sort out
+ * the locale settings *before* we try to do anything with the command
+ * line arguments. For cross-platform debugging purposes, we also need
+ * to give end users a way to force even scripts that are otherwise
+ * isolated from their environment to use the legacy ASCII-centric C
+ * locale.
+ *
+ * Ignoring -E and -I is safe from a security perspective, as we only use
+ * the setting to turn *off* the implicit locale coercion, and anyone with
+ * access to the process environment already has the ability to set
+ * `LC_ALL=C` to override the C level locale settings anyway.
+ */
+ const char *coerce_c_locale = getenv("PYTHONCOERCECLOCALE");
+ if (coerce_c_locale == NULL || strncmp(coerce_c_locale, "0", 2) != 0) {
+ /* PYTHONCOERCECLOCALE is not set, or is set to something other than "0" */
+ const char *locale_override = getenv("LC_ALL");
+ if (locale_override == NULL || *locale_override == '\0') {
+ /* LC_ALL is also not set (or is set to an empty string) */
+ const _LocaleCoercionTarget *target = NULL;
+ for (target = _TARGET_LOCALES; target->locale_name; target++) {
+ const char *new_locale = setlocale(LC_CTYPE,
+ target->locale_name);
+ if (new_locale != NULL) {
+ /* Successfully configured locale, so make it the default */
+ _coerce_default_locale_settings(target);
+ return;
+ }
+ }
+ }
+ }
+ /* No C locale warning here, as Py_Initialize will emit one later */
+#endif
+}
+
+
+#ifdef PY_WARN_ON_C_LOCALE
+static const char *_C_LOCALE_WARNING =
+ "Python runtime initialized with LC_CTYPE=C (a locale with default ASCII "
+ "encoding), which may cause Unicode compatibility problems. Using C.UTF-8, "
+ "C.utf8, or UTF-8 (if available) as alternative Unicode-compatible "
+ "locales is recommended.\n";
+
+static void
+_emit_stderr_warning_for_c_locale(void)
+{
+ const char *coerce_c_locale = getenv("PYTHONCOERCECLOCALE");
+ if (coerce_c_locale == NULL || strncmp(coerce_c_locale, "0", 2) != 0) {
+ if (_Py_LegacyLocaleDetected()) {
+ fprintf(stderr, "%s", _C_LOCALE_WARNING);
+ }
+ }
+}
+#endif
+
/* Global initializations. Can be undone by Py_Finalize(). Don't
call this twice without an intervening Py_Finalize() call.
@@ -396,11 +550,21 @@ void _Py_InitializeCore(const _PyCoreConfig *config)
*/
_Py_Finalizing = NULL;
-#ifdef HAVE_SETLOCALE
+#ifdef __ANDROID__
+ /* Passing "" to setlocale() on Android requests the C locale rather
+ * than checking environment variables, so request C.UTF-8 explicitly
+ */
+ setlocale(LC_CTYPE, "C.UTF-8");
+#else
+#ifndef MS_WINDOWS
/* Set up the LC_CTYPE locale, so we can obtain
the locale's charset without having to switch
locales. */
setlocale(LC_CTYPE, "");
+#ifdef PY_WARN_ON_C_LOCALE
+ _emit_stderr_warning_for_c_locale();
+#endif
+#endif
#endif
if ((p = Py_GETENV("PYTHONDEBUG")) && *p != '\0')
@@ -1457,12 +1621,8 @@ initstdio(void)
}
}
if (!errors && !(pythonioencoding && *pythonioencoding)) {
- /* When the LC_CTYPE locale is the POSIX locale ("C locale"),
- stdin and stdout use the surrogateescape error handler by
- default, instead of the strict error handler. */
- char *loc = setlocale(LC_CTYPE, NULL);
- if (loc != NULL && strcmp(loc, "C") == 0)
- errors = "surrogateescape";
+ /* Choose the default error handler based on the current locale */
+ errors = get_default_standard_stream_error_handler();
}
}
diff --git a/configure b/configure
index 8b824b2..ec42e08 100755
--- a/configure
+++ b/configure
@@ -834,6 +834,8 @@ with_thread
enable_ipv6
with_doc_strings
with_pymalloc
+with_c_locale_coercion
+with_c_locale_warning
with_valgrind
with_dtrace
with_fpectl
@@ -1528,6 +1530,12 @@ Optional Packages:
deprecated; use --with(out)-threads
--with(out)-doc-strings disable/enable documentation strings
--with(out)-pymalloc disable/enable specialized mallocs
+ --with(out)-c-locale-coercion
+ disable/enable C locale coercion to a UTF-8 based
+ locale
+ --with(out)-c-locale-warning
+ disable/enable locale compatibility warning in the C
+ locale
--with-valgrind Enable Valgrind support
--with(out)-dtrace disable/enable DTrace support
--with-fpectl enable SIGFPE catching
@@ -11047,6 +11055,52 @@ fi
{ $as_echo "$as_me:${as_lineno-$LINENO}: result: $with_pymalloc" >&5
$as_echo "$with_pymalloc" >&6; }
+# Check for --with-c-locale-coercion
+{ $as_echo "$as_me:${as_lineno-$LINENO}: checking for --with-c-locale-coercion" >&5
+$as_echo_n "checking for --with-c-locale-coercion... " >&6; }
+
+# Check whether --with-c-locale-coercion was given.
+if test "${with_c_locale_coercion+set}" = set; then :
+ withval=$with_c_locale_coercion;
+fi
+
+
+if test -z "$with_c_locale_coercion"
+then
+ with_c_locale_coercion="yes"
+fi
+if test "$with_c_locale_coercion" != "no"
+then
+
+$as_echo "#define PY_COERCE_C_LOCALE 1" >>confdefs.h
+
+fi
+{ $as_echo "$as_me:${as_lineno-$LINENO}: result: $with_c_locale_coercion" >&5
+$as_echo "$with_c_locale_coercion" >&6; }
+
+# Check for --with-c-locale-warning
+{ $as_echo "$as_me:${as_lineno-$LINENO}: checking for --with-c-locale-warning" >&5
+$as_echo_n "checking for --with-c-locale-warning... " >&6; }
+
+# Check whether --with-c-locale-warning was given.
+if test "${with_c_locale_warning+set}" = set; then :
+ withval=$with_c_locale_warning;
+fi
+
+
+if test -z "$with_c_locale_warning"
+then
+ with_c_locale_warning="yes"
+fi
+if test "$with_c_locale_warning" != "no"
+then
+
+$as_echo "#define PY_WARN_ON_C_LOCALE 1" >>confdefs.h
+
+fi
+{ $as_echo "$as_me:${as_lineno-$LINENO}: result: $with_c_locale_warning" >&5
+$as_echo "$with_c_locale_warning" >&6; }
+
# Check for Valgrind support
{ $as_echo "$as_me:${as_lineno-$LINENO}: checking for --with-valgrind" >&5
$as_echo_n "checking for --with-valgrind... " >&6; }
diff --git a/configure.ac b/configure.ac
index d5b6399..18b940a 100644
--- a/configure.ac
+++ b/configure.ac
@@ -3325,6 +3325,40 @@ then
fi
AC_MSG_RESULT($with_pymalloc)
+# Check for --with-c-locale-coercion
+AC_MSG_CHECKING(for --with-c-locale-coercion)
+AC_ARG_WITH(c-locale-coercion,
+ AS_HELP_STRING([--with(out)-c-locale-coercion],
+ [disable/enable C locale coercion to a UTF-8 based locale]))
+
+if test -z "$with_c_locale_coercion"
+then
+ with_c_locale_coercion="yes"
+fi
+if test "$with_c_locale_coercion" != "no"
+then
+ AC_DEFINE(PY_COERCE_C_LOCALE, 1,
+ [Define if you want to coerce the C locale to a UTF-8 based locale])
+fi
+AC_MSG_RESULT($with_c_locale_coercion)
+
+# Check for --with-c-locale-warning
+AC_MSG_CHECKING(for --with-c-locale-warning)
+AC_ARG_WITH(c-locale-warning,
+ AS_HELP_STRING([--with(out)-c-locale-warning],
+ [disable/enable locale compatibility warning in the C locale]))
+
+if test -z "$with_c_locale_warning"
+then
+ with_c_locale_warning="yes"
+fi
+if test "$with_c_locale_warning" != "no"
+then
+ AC_DEFINE(PY_WARN_ON_C_LOCALE, 1,
+ [Define to emit a locale compatibility warning in the C locale])
+fi
+AC_MSG_RESULT($with_c_locale_warning)
+
# Check for Valgrind support
AC_MSG_CHECKING([for --with-valgrind])
AC_ARG_WITH([valgrind],
diff --git a/pyconfig.h.in b/pyconfig.h.in
index 0a3d59e..fa2792b 100644
--- a/pyconfig.h.in
+++ b/pyconfig.h.in
@@ -1247,9 +1247,15 @@
/* Define as the preferred size in bits of long digits */
#undef PYLONG_BITS_IN_DIGIT
+/* Define if you want to coerce the C locale to a UTF-8 based locale */
+#undef PY_COERCE_C_LOCALE
+
/* Define to printf format modifier for Py_ssize_t */
#undef PY_FORMAT_SIZE_T
+/* Define to emit a locale compatibility warning in the C locale */
+#undef PY_WARN_ON_C_LOCALE
+
/* Define if you want to build an interpreter with many run-time checks. */
#undef Py_DEBUG