Change command line processing API to use wchar_t.

Fixes #2128.

4 files changed, 25 insertions, 20 deletions

diff --git a/Doc/c-api/init.rst b/Doc/c-api/init.rst
index dac37e1767..53fc735ab2 100644
--- a/Doc/c-api/init.rst
+++ b/Doc/c-api/init.rst
@@ -161,7 +161,7 @@ Initialization, Finalization, and Threads
    haven't been explicitly destroyed at that point.
 
 
-.. cfunction:: void Py_SetProgramName(char *name)
+.. cfunction:: void Py_SetProgramName(wchar_t *name)
 
    .. index::
       single: Py_Initialize()
@@ -170,11 +170,12 @@ Initialization, Finalization, and Threads
 
    This function should be called before :cfunc:`Py_Initialize` is called for
    the first time, if it is called at all.  It tells the interpreter the value
-   of the ``argv[0]`` argument to the :cfunc:`main` function of the program.
+   of the ``argv[0]`` argument to the :cfunc:`main` function of the program
+   (converted to wide characters).
    This is used by :cfunc:`Py_GetPath` and some other functions below to find
    the Python run-time libraries relative to the interpreter executable.  The
    default value is ``'python'``.  The argument should point to a
-   zero-terminated character string in static storage whose contents will not
+   zero-terminated wide character string in static storage whose contents will not
    change for the duration of the program's execution.  No code in the Python
    interpreter will change the contents of this storage.
 
@@ -188,7 +189,7 @@ Initialization, Finalization, and Threads
    value.
 
 
-.. cfunction:: char* Py_GetPrefix()
+.. cfunction:: wchar_t* Py_GetPrefix()
 
    Return the *prefix* for installed platform-independent files. This is derived
    through a number of complicated rules from the program name set with
@@ -201,7 +202,7 @@ Initialization, Finalization, and Threads
    It is only useful on Unix.  See also the next function.
 
 
-.. cfunction:: char* Py_GetExecPrefix()
+.. cfunction:: wchar_t* Py_GetExecPrefix()
 
    Return the *exec-prefix* for installed platform-*dependent* files.  This is
    derived through a number of complicated rules from the program name set with
@@ -236,7 +237,7 @@ Initialization, Finalization, and Threads
    platform.
 
 
-.. cfunction:: char* Py_GetProgramFullPath()
+.. cfunction:: wchar_t* Py_GetProgramFullPath()
 
    .. index::
       single: Py_SetProgramName()
@@ -249,7 +250,7 @@ Initialization, Finalization, and Threads
    to Python code as ``sys.executable``.
 
 
-.. cfunction:: char* Py_GetPath()
+.. cfunction:: wchar_t* Py_GetPath()
 
    .. index::
       triple: module; search; path
@@ -342,7 +343,7 @@ Initialization, Finalization, and Threads
    ``sys.version``.
 
 
-.. cfunction:: void PySys_SetArgv(int argc, char **argv)
+.. cfunction:: void PySys_SetArgv(int argc, wchar_t **argv)
 
    .. index::
       single: main()
diff --git a/Doc/c-api/sys.rst b/Doc/c-api/sys.rst
index 7696811a78..2a98c9d0e1 100644
--- a/Doc/c-api/sys.rst
+++ b/Doc/c-api/sys.rst
@@ -84,11 +84,11 @@ accessible to C code.  They all work with the current interpreter thread's
 
    Reset :data:`sys.warnoptions` to an empty list.
 
-.. cfunction:: void PySys_AddWarnOption(char *s)
+.. cfunction:: void PySys_AddWarnOption(wchar_t *s)
 
    Append *s* to :data:`sys.warnoptions`.
 
-.. cfunction:: void PySys_SetPath(char *path)
+.. cfunction:: void PySys_SetPath(wchar_t *path)
 
    Set :data:`sys.path` to a list object of paths found in *path* which should
    be a list of paths separated with the platform's search path delimiter
diff --git a/Doc/c-api/unicode.rst b/Doc/c-api/unicode.rst
index 448cf6895c..17c25d577f 100644
--- a/Doc/c-api/unicode.rst
+++ b/Doc/c-api/unicode.rst
@@ -336,6 +336,8 @@ the system's :ctype:`wchar_t`.
 .. cfunction:: PyObject* PyUnicode_FromWideChar(const wchar_t *w, Py_ssize_t size)
 
    Create a Unicode object from the :ctype:`wchar_t` buffer *w* of the given size.
+   Passing -1 as the size indicates that the function must itself compute the length,
+   using wcslen.
    Return *NULL* on failure.
 
 
diff --git a/Doc/c-api/veryhigh.rst b/Doc/c-api/veryhigh.rst
index 6a3f91d098..2378c76633 100644
--- a/Doc/c-api/veryhigh.rst
+++ b/Doc/c-api/veryhigh.rst
@@ -25,16 +25,18 @@ are only passed to these functions if it is certain that they were created by
 the same library that the Python runtime is using.
 
 
-.. cfunction:: int Py_Main(int argc, char **argv)
-
-   The main program for the standard interpreter.  This is made available for
-   programs which embed Python.  The *argc* and *argv* parameters should be
-   prepared exactly as those which are passed to a C program's :cfunc:`main`
-   function.  It is important to note that the argument list may be modified (but
-   the contents of the strings pointed to by the argument list are not). The return
-   value will be the integer passed to the :func:`sys.exit` function, ``1`` if the
-   interpreter exits due to an exception, or ``2`` if the parameter list does not
-   represent a valid Python command line.
+.. cfunction:: int Py_Main(int argc, wchar_t **argv)
+
+   The main program for the standard interpreter.  This is made
+   available for programs which embed Python.  The *argc* and *argv*
+   parameters should be prepared exactly as those which are passed to
+   a C program's :cfunc:`main` function (converted to wchar_t
+   according to the user's locale).  It is important to note that the
+   argument list may be modified (but the contents of the strings
+   pointed to by the argument list are not). The return value will be
+   the integer passed to the :func:`sys.exit` function, ``1`` if the
+   interpreter exits due to an exception, or ``2`` if the parameter
+   list does not represent a valid Python command line.
 
 
 .. cfunction:: int PyRun_AnyFile(FILE *fp, const char *filename)