Issue #5915: Implement PEP 383, Non-decodable Bytes in
System Character Interfaces.
diff --git a/Modules/python.c b/Modules/python.c
index f6da86f..4c0a55b 100644
--- a/Modules/python.c
+++ b/Modules/python.c
@@ -14,6 +14,93 @@
 	return Py_Main(argc, argv);
 }
 #else
+static wchar_t*
+char2wchar(char* arg)
+{
+	wchar_t *res;
+#ifdef HAVE_BROKEN_MBSTOWCS
+	/* Some platforms have a broken implementation of
+	 * mbstowcs which does not count the characters that
+	 * would result from conversion.  Use an upper bound.
+	 */
+	size_t argsize = strlen(arg);
+#else
+	size_t argsize = mbstowcs(NULL, arg, 0);
+#endif
+	size_t count;
+	unsigned char *in;
+	wchar_t *out;
+#ifdef HAVE_MBRTOWC
+	mbstate_t mbs;
+#endif
+	if (argsize != (size_t)-1) {
+		res = (wchar_t *)PyMem_Malloc((argsize+1)*sizeof(wchar_t));
+		if (!res)
+			goto oom;
+		count = mbstowcs(res, arg, argsize+1);
+		if (count != (size_t)-1)
+			return res;
+		PyMem_Free(res);
+	}
+	/* Conversion failed. Fall back to escaping with utf8b. */
+#ifdef HAVE_MBRTOWC
+	/* Try conversion with mbrtwoc (C99), and escape non-decodable bytes. */
+	
+	/* Overallocate; as multi-byte characters are in the argument, the
+	   actual output could use less memory. */
+	argsize = strlen(arg) + 1;
+	res = PyMem_Malloc(argsize*sizeof(wchar_t));
+	if (!res) goto oom;
+	in = (unsigned char*)arg;
+	out = res;
+	memset(&mbs, 0, sizeof mbs);
+	while (argsize) {
+		size_t converted = mbrtowc(out, (char*)in, argsize, &mbs);
+		if (converted == 0)
+			/* Reached end of string; null char stored. */
+			break;
+		if (converted == (size_t)-2) {
+			/* Incomplete character. This should never happen,
+			   since we provide everything that we have -
+			   unless there is a bug in the C library, or I 
+			   misunderstood how mbrtowc works. */
+			fprintf(stderr, "unexpected mbrtowc result -2\n");
+			return NULL;
+		}
+		if (converted == (size_t)-1) {
+			/* Conversion error. Escape as UTF-8b, and start over
+			   in the initial shift state. */
+			*out++ = 0xdc00 + *in++;
+			argsize--;
+			memset(&mbs, 0, sizeof mbs);
+			continue;
+		}
+		/* successfully converted some bytes */
+		in += converted;
+		argsize -= converted;
+		out++;
+	}
+#else
+	/* Cannot use C locale for escaping; manually escape as if charset
+	   is ASCII (i.e. escape all bytes > 128. This will still roundtrip
+	   correctly in the locale's charset, which must be an ASCII superset. */
+	res = PyMem_Malloc((strlen(arg)+1)*sizeof(wchar_t));
+	if (!res) goto oom;
+	in = (unsigned char*)arg;
+	out = res;
+	while(*in)
+		if(*in < 128)
+			*out++ = *in++;
+		else
+			*out++ = 0xdc00 + *in++;
+	*out = 0;
+#endif
+	return res;
+oom:
+	fprintf(stderr, "out of memory\n");
+	return NULL;
+}
+
 int
 main(int argc, char **argv)
 {
@@ -40,31 +127,9 @@
 	oldloc = strdup(setlocale(LC_ALL, NULL));
 	setlocale(LC_ALL, "");
 	for (i = 0; i < argc; i++) {
-#ifdef HAVE_BROKEN_MBSTOWCS
-		/* Some platforms have a broken implementation of
-		 * mbstowcs which does not count the characters that
-		 * would result from conversion.  Use an upper bound.
-		 */
-		size_t argsize = strlen(argv[i]);
-#else
-		size_t argsize = mbstowcs(NULL, argv[i], 0);
-#endif
-		size_t count;
-		if (argsize == (size_t)-1) {
-			fprintf(stderr, "Could not convert argument %d to string\n", i);
+		argv_copy2[i] = argv_copy[i] = char2wchar(argv[i]);
+		if (!argv_copy[i])
 			return 1;
-		}
-		argv_copy[i] = (wchar_t *)PyMem_Malloc((argsize+1)*sizeof(wchar_t));
-		argv_copy2[i] = argv_copy[i];
-		if (!argv_copy[i]) {
-			fprintf(stderr, "out of memory\n");
-			return 1;
-		}
-		count = mbstowcs(argv_copy[i], argv[i], argsize+1);
-		if (count == (size_t)-1) {
-			fprintf(stderr, "Could not convert argument %d to string\n", i);
-			return 1;
-		}
 	}
 	setlocale(LC_ALL, oldloc);
 	free(oldloc);