Patch version 5 fixes the encode/decode flags on Windows XP. The codecs give different result on XP and Seven in some cases:
Seven:
- b'\x81\x00abc'.decode('cp932', 'replace') returns '\u30fb\x00abc'
- '\udc80'.encode(CP_UTF8, 'strict') raises UnicodeEncodeError
- b'[\xed\xb2\x80]'.decode(CP_UTF8, 'strict') raises UnicodeEncodeError
- b'[\xed\xb2\x80]'.decode(CP_UTF8, 'ignore') returns '[]'
- b'[\xed\xb2\x80]'.decode(CP_UTF8, 'replace') returns '[\ufffd\ufffd\ufffd]'
XP:
- b'\x81\x00abc'.decode('cp932', 'replace') returns '\x00\x00abc'
- '\udc80'.encode(CP_UTF8, 'strict') returns b'\xed\xb2\x80'
- b'[\xed\xb2\x80]'.decode(CP_UTF8, 'strict') returns '[\udc80]'
These differences come from Windows codecs.