#2242: utf7 decoding crashes on bogus input on some Windows/MSVC versions
diff --git a/Lib/test/test_unicode.py b/Lib/test/test_unicode.py
index 24e8e77..f825353 100644
--- a/Lib/test/test_unicode.py
+++ b/Lib/test/test_unicode.py
@@ -532,6 +532,9 @@
self.assertEqual(unicode('+3ADYAA-', 'utf-7', 'replace'), u'\ufffd')
+ # Issue #2242: crash on some Windows/MSVC versions
+ self.assertRaises(UnicodeDecodeError, '+\xc1'.decode, 'utf-7')
+
def test_codecs_utf8(self):
self.assertEqual(u''.encode('utf-8'), '')
self.assertEqual(u'\u20ac'.encode('utf-8'), '\xe2\x82\xac')
diff --git a/Objects/unicodeobject.c b/Objects/unicodeobject.c
index a62e929..16d97c3 100644
--- a/Objects/unicodeobject.c
+++ b/Objects/unicodeobject.c
@@ -1523,7 +1523,7 @@
while (s < e) {
Py_UNICODE ch;
restart:
- ch = *s;
+ ch = (unsigned char) *s;
if (inShift) {
if ((ch == '-') || !B64CHAR(ch)) {