#3705: Command-line arguments were not correctly decoded when the

terminal does not use UTF8.

Now the code propagates the unicode string as far as possible, and avoids
the conversion to char* which implicitely uses utf-8.

Reviewed by Benjamin.

Lib/test/test_cmd_line.py

@@ -135,6 +135,12 @@ class CmdLineTest(unittest.TestCase):
             self.exit_code('-c', 'pass'),
             0)
 
+        # Test handling of non-ascii data
+        command = "assert(ord('\xe9') == 0xe9)"
+        self.assertEqual(
+            self.exit_code('-c', command),
+            0)
+
 
 def test_main():
     test.support.run_unittest(CmdLineTest)