"M.-A. Lemburg" <mal@lemburg.com> writes:
> Some debugging with gdb indicates that the codec is indeed writing
> the 'nd', but the final _PyString_Resize() (which allocates a new
> buffer and copies the data into that buffer) fails to copy the last
> two characters from the string or overwrites it with NULLs.
>> Looks like a pymalloc problem to me. Tim ?
It's a UTF-8 codec bug. The codec writes over the end of the buffer,
then invokes resize. Resizing only copies the allocated bytes, hence
the uninitialized bytes at the end.
Regards,
Martin
