Python3 str does not have .decode(), this will cause the idaapi.has_mbcs to always be False

[Harding-Stardust]

https://github.com/idapython/src/blob/d34bb4b45a4b862d9af992e30220e9c344834ce3/pywraps/py_idaapi.py#LL407C10-L407C10

There are some .decode() that will fail on Python 3.

[williballenthin]

might be fixed by using a bytes literal, like: b"".decode("UTF-8").encode("mbcs") (note leading "b").

[Harding-Stardust]

Unfortunately not. The first decode "".decode("UTF-8") will return a str and that will in turn fail on the .encode("mbcs")

[williballenthin]

in Python3 the str class has a method .encode(...) that returns the string as bytes using the specified encoding. So, I think this would work:

bytes.decode(encoding: str) -> str
str.encode(encoding: str) -> bytes

[Harding-Stardust]

You are correct, I read it as 2 decodes in a row. My bad!

[aundro]

Good catch, thank you! (will handle this soon)

[0xeb]

@aundro , this should have been fixed by now? want to close the issue?

[aundro]

Indeed. Thank you for the heads-up.