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-rw-r--r--Misc/NEWS3
-rw-r--r--Modules/python.c10
2 files changed, 12 insertions, 1 deletions
diff --git a/Misc/NEWS b/Misc/NEWS
index 142c9fc34e..06fbe9d2d9 100644
--- a/Misc/NEWS
+++ b/Misc/NEWS
@@ -10,6 +10,9 @@ What's New in Python 3.2 Beta 1?
Core and Builtins
-----------------
+- Issue #9992: On Mac OS X, decode command line arguments from utf-8 instead of
+ the locale encoding.
+
- Issue #9992: Remove PYTHONFSENCODING environment variable.
Library
diff --git a/Modules/python.c b/Modules/python.c
index 22fbdb5b0a..540bcfe1a4 100644
--- a/Modules/python.c
+++ b/Modules/python.c
@@ -41,7 +41,15 @@ main(int argc, char **argv)
oldloc = strdup(setlocale(LC_ALL, NULL));
setlocale(LC_ALL, "");
for (i = 0; i < argc; i++) {
- argv_copy2[i] = argv_copy[i] = _Py_char2wchar(argv[i]);
+#ifdef __APPLE__
+ /* Use utf-8 on Mac OS X */
+ PyObject *unicode = PyUnicode_FromString(argv[i]);
+ argv_copy[i] = PyUnicode_AsWideCharString(unicode, NULL);
+ Py_DECREF(unicode);
+#else
+ argv_copy[i] = _Py_char2wchar(argv[i]);
+#endif
+ argv_copy2[i] = argv_copy[i];
if (!argv_copy[i])
return 1;
}