Python3 str does not have .decode(), this will cause the idaapi.has_mbcs to always be False

Question

Harding-Stardust opened this issue a year ago · 7 comments

There are some .decode() that will fail on Python 3.

Answer 1 · 2023-05-16T20:37:31.000Z

might be fixed by using a bytes literal, like: b"".decode("UTF-8").encode("mbcs") (note leading "b").

Answer 2 · 2023-05-16T20:45:09.000Z

Unfortunately not. The first decode "".decode("UTF-8") will return a str and that will in turn fail on the .encode("mbcs")

Answer 3 · 2023-05-16T20:48:51.000Z

in Python3 the str class has a method .encode(...) that returns the string as bytes using the specified encoding. So, I think this would work:

bytes.decode(encoding: str) -> str
str.encode(encoding: str) -> bytes

Answer 4 · 2023-05-16T20:53:38.000Z

You are correct, I read it as 2 decodes in a row. My bad!

Answer 5 · 2023-05-19T08:43:34.000Z

Good catch, thank you! (will handle this soon)

Answer 6 · 2023-06-25T22:40:17.000Z

@aundro , this should have been fixed by now? want to close the issue?

Answer 7 · 2023-06-26T09:43:43.000Z

Indeed. Thank you for the heads-up.