[bernard]

Hi Christian,

which would, however, generate a UnicodeEncodeError if a client sends a string with characters that are not representable in the server's locale, so more effort is needed to have robust printing in the server (the best I've been able to come up with is

print s.decode('utf8').encode(locale.getpreferredencoding(), 'replace')

which is not that trivial any more...).

We provide 3 string converter implementations in Ice 3.3:

• UnicodeWstringConverter
  Converts UTF-16 or UTF-32 wstrings to/from UTF-8 sequences. By default, it's "lenient", i.e. some malformed input sequences are transformed into the Unicode replacement character. In 3.3.0, you'll be able to get the strict behavior as well (no replacement character).
  
• IconvStringConverter
  Converts narrow or wstrings from the specified iconv encoding to/from UTF-8. It's always strict, i.e. if there is no mapping, you get an exception.
  
• WindowsStringConverter
  Converts narrow strings encoded in a given code-page to/from UTF-8. Like with the Iconv converter, if there is no mapping, you get an exception.

So if you want to use a replacement character, you'll probably need to write your own C++ string converter.

Cheers,
Bernard