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Leave a byte that starts no UTF-8 sequence at the end of a console write - #8621

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find_last_utf8_boundary read every byte at or above 0xc0 as the start of a sequence, giving 0xf8..=0xff an expected length of 4 and cutting the tail back to before it. _find_last_utf8_boundary in Modules/_io/winconsoleio.c stops the four-byte range at 0xf8 and returns the full length for anything above it, leaving the byte for MultiByteToWideChar to answer with U+FFFD.

write_console_utf8 therefore reported fewer bytes written than it was given whenever one of those bytes fell in the last three, and for a buffer that began with one it cut the length to 0, converted nothing and returned Ok(0) — a write that never advances.

The scan also ran a fourth iteration the C loop does not. The arms happen to answer the same there, so that part is not a behaviour change; the bound is now the same 3.

Four unit tests cover the complete tail, the incomplete tail, every byte in 0xf8..=0xff (alone and after a character), and the empty buffer. Reverting just the c < 0xf8 arm fails leaves_a_byte_that_starts_no_sequence and nothing else.

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    • Improved handling of UTF-8 boundaries at the end of text.
    • Correctly handles incomplete, invalid, empty, and oversized byte sequences without incorrectly reporting an incomplete tail.
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    • Added coverage for complete and incomplete UTF-8 sequences, non-starting bytes, and empty or oversized inputs.

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The UTF-8 boundary scan now checks the final three bytes and handles incomplete sequences and non-sequence lead bytes. Unit tests cover complete tails, incomplete tails, invalid lead and continuation bytes, empty buffers, and oversized buffers.

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UTF-8 boundary handling

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find_last_utf8_boundary now evaluates UTF-8 sequences using valid 2-, 3-, and 4-byte lead ranges. Tests cover complete and incomplete tails, bytes from 0xf8 through 0xff, continuation bytes, empty buffers, and oversized buffers.

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Compute the expected sequence length once.

These branches select 2, 3, 4, or no sequence. The count comparison and return are common. Store the selected length, keep an explicit no-sequence case for 0xf8..=0xff, and perform one count < expected check.

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`find_last_utf8_boundary` read every byte at or above 0xc0 as the start of a
sequence, giving 0xf8..=0xff an expected length of 4 and cutting the tail back
to before it.  `_find_last_utf8_boundary` stops the four-byte range at 0xf8 and
returns the full length for anything above it, leaving the byte for
MultiByteToWideChar to answer with U+FFFD.

`write_console_utf8` therefore reported fewer bytes written than it was given
whenever one of those bytes fell in the last three, and for a buffer that began
with one it cut the length to 0, converted nothing and returned Ok(0) -- a
write that never advances.

The scan also ran a fourth iteration the C loop does not; the arms happen to
answer the same there, but the bound is now the same 3.
The marker went stale with the boundary fix in the parent commit.  The test
writes `b'\xff'*10` and `data + b'\xff'` to CONOUT$ and asserts the returned
count, which is the case `find_last_utf8_boundary` was answering wrong, so
regrtest now reports it as an unexpected success.
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The following Lib/ modules were modified. Here are their dependencies:

[x] test: cpython/Lib/test/test_winconsoleio.py

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dependent tests: (no tests depend on winconsoleio)

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* Leave a byte that starts no UTF-8 sequence at the end of a console write

`find_last_utf8_boundary` read every byte at or above 0xc0 as the start of a
sequence, giving 0xf8..=0xff an expected length of 4 and cutting the tail back
to before it.  `_find_last_utf8_boundary` stops the four-byte range at 0xf8 and
returns the full length for anything above it, leaving the byte for
MultiByteToWideChar to answer with U+FFFD.

`write_console_utf8` therefore reported fewer bytes written than it was given
whenever one of those bytes fell in the last three, and for a buffer that began
with one it cut the length to 0, converted nothing and returned Ok(0) -- a
write that never advances.

The scan also ran a fourth iteration the C loop does not; the arms happen to
answer the same there, but the bound is now the same 3.

* Drop the expectedFailure on test_winconsoleio's test_write

The marker went stale with the boundary fix in the parent commit.  The test
writes `b'\xff'*10` and `data + b'\xff'` to CONOUT$ and asserts the returned
count, which is the case `find_last_utf8_boundary` was answering wrong, so
regrtest now reports it as an unexpected success.
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