remove non-ascii characters in docstring

[animalize]

BPO	36101
Nosy	@methane, @animalize
PRs	bpo-36101: remove non-ascii characters in docstring #12018

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assignee = None
closed_at = <Date 2019-02-24.23:20:06.313>
created_at = <Date 2019-02-24.13:36:09.880>
labels = ['3.8', 'docs']
title = 'remove non-ascii characters in docstring'
updated_at = <Date 2019-02-24.23:20:06.312>
user = 'https://github.com/animalize'

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components = ['Documentation']
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issue_num = 36101
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pr_nums = ['12018']
priority = 'normal'
resolution = 'fixed'
stage = 'resolved'
status = 'closed'
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url = 'https://bugs.python.org/issue36101'
versions = ['Python 3.8']

Linked PRs

• gh-80282: Argument Clinic: Add clarifying comment about ASCII docstring limitation #107764

[animalize]

replace ’(\u2019) with '(\x27)

[animalize]

only 3.8 branch has those non-ascii characters.

[methane]

New changeset 463572c by Inada Naoki (animalize) in branch 'master':
bpo-36101: remove non-ascii characters in docstring (GH-12018)
463572c

[methane]

thanks

[erlend-aasland]

@methane, @animalize: why was this limitation introduced? I find no rationale or motivation in this issue, nor on the PR.

cc. @AlexWaygood & @terryjreedy

[methane]

Sorry, I don't remember where we discussed.
When this change was made, MSVC used ANSI Codepage for C sources.

Now we use /utf8 flag on MSVC. So that limitation has been removed.
But I am still not sure that the C source is 100% UTF-8 on all platform and compiler toolsets.

[erlend-aasland]

Thank you, Inada-san! I suspected it had to do with Windows. Perhaps someone on the @python/windows-team could chime in, regarding status quo today? Is this limitation still needed?

[methane]

There are platforms we don't support officially but some active users maintain Python running.
Solaris and AIX.