Codec registry and support functions
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int PyCodec_Register(PyObject *search_function)

   Register a new codec search function.

   As side effect, this tries to load the "encodings" package, if not
   yet done, to make sure that it is always first in the list of
   search functions.

int PyCodec_KnownEncoding(const char *encoding)

   Return "1" or "0" depending on whether there is a registered codec
   for the given *encoding*.

PyObject* PyCodec_Encode(PyObject *object, const char *encoding, const char *errors)

   Generic codec based encoding API.

   *object* is passed through the encoder function found for the given
   *encoding* using the error handling method defined by *errors*.
   *errors* may be *NULL* to use the default method defined for the
   codec.  Raises a "LookupError" if no encoder can be found.

PyObject* PyCodec_Decode(PyObject *object, const char *encoding, const char *errors)

   Generic codec based decoding API.

   *object* is passed through the decoder function found for the given
   *encoding* using the error handling method defined by *errors*.
   *errors* may be *NULL* to use the default method defined for the
   codec.  Raises a "LookupError" if no encoder can be found.


Codec lookup API
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In the following functions, the *encoding* string is looked up
converted to all lower-case characters, which makes encodings looked
up through this mechanism effectively case-insensitive.  If no codec
is found, a "KeyError" is set and *NULL* returned.

PyObject* PyCodec_Encoder(const char *encoding)

   Get an encoder function for the given *encoding*.

PyObject* PyCodec_Decoder(const char *encoding)

   Get a decoder function for the given *encoding*.

PyObject* PyCodec_IncrementalEncoder(const char *encoding, const char *errors)

   Get an "IncrementalEncoder" object for the given *encoding*.

PyObject* PyCodec_IncrementalDecoder(const char *encoding, const char *errors)

   Get an "IncrementalDecoder" object for the given *encoding*.

PyObject* PyCodec_StreamReader(const char *encoding, PyObject *stream, const char *errors)

   Get a "StreamReader" factory function for the given *encoding*.

PyObject* PyCodec_StreamWriter(const char *encoding, PyObject *stream, const char *errors)

   Get a "StreamWriter" factory function for the given *encoding*.


Registry API for Unicode encoding error handlers
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int PyCodec_RegisterError(const char *name, PyObject *error)

   Register the error handling callback function *error* under the
   given *name*. This callback function will be called by a codec when
   it encounters unencodable characters/undecodable bytes and *name*
   is specified as the error parameter in the call to the
   encode/decode function.

   The callback gets a single argument, an instance of
   "UnicodeEncodeError", "UnicodeDecodeError" or
   "UnicodeTranslateError" that holds information about the
   problematic sequence of characters or bytes and their offset in the
   original string (see Unicode Exception Objects for functions to
   extract this information).  The callback must either raise the
   given exception, or return a two-item tuple containing the
   replacement for the problematic sequence, and an integer giving the
   offset in the original string at which encoding/decoding should be
   resumed.

   Return "0" on success, "-1" on error.

PyObject* PyCodec_LookupError(const char *name)

   Lookup the error handling callback function registered under
   *name*.  As a special case *NULL* can be passed, in which case the
   error handling callback for “strict” will be returned.

PyObject* PyCodec_StrictErrors(PyObject *exc)

   Raise *exc* as an exception.

PyObject* PyCodec_IgnoreErrors(PyObject *exc)

   Ignore the unicode error, skipping the faulty input.

PyObject* PyCodec_ReplaceErrors(PyObject *exc)

   Replace the unicode encode error with "?" or "U+FFFD".

PyObject* PyCodec_XMLCharRefReplaceErrors(PyObject *exc)

   Replace the unicode encode error with XML character references.

PyObject* PyCodec_BackslashReplaceErrors(PyObject *exc)

   Replace the unicode encode error with backslash escapes ("\x", "\u"
   and "\U").