gvanrossum · Sep 7, 2022 · Aug 25, 2022 · Aug 25, 2022 · Aug 25, 2022 · Aug 25, 2022
diff --git a/Lib/test/test_source_encoding.py b/Lib/test/test_source_encoding.py
@@ -236,16 +236,23 @@ def test_invalid_utf8(self):
         # test it is to write actual files to disk.
 
         # Each example is put inside a string at the top of the file so
-        # it's an otherwise valid Python source file.
-        template = b'"%s"\n'
+        # it's an otherwise valid Python source file. Put some newlines
+        # beforehand so we can assert that the error is reported on the
+        # correct line.
+        template = b'\n\n\n"%s"\n'
 
         fn = TESTFN
         self.addCleanup(unlink, fn)
 
         def check(content):
             with open(fn, 'wb') as fp:
                 fp.write(template % content)
-            script_helper.assert_python_failure(fn)
+            rc, stdout, stderr = script_helper.assert_python_failure(fn)
+            # We want to assert that the python subprocess failed gracefully,
+            # not via a signal.
+            self.assertGreaterEqual(rc, 1)
+            self.assertIn(b"Non-UTF-8 code starting with", stderr)
+            self.assertIn(b"on line 4", stderr)
 
         # continuation bytes in a sequence of 2, 3, or 4 bytes
         continuation_bytes = [bytes([x]) for x in range(0x80, 0xC0)]

diff --git a/Misc/NEWS.d/next/Core and Builtins/2022-08-25-10-19-34.gh-issue-96268.AbYrLB.rst b/Misc/NEWS.d/next/Core and Builtins/2022-08-25-10-19-34.gh-issue-96268.AbYrLB.rst
@@ -0,0 +1,2 @@
+Loading a file with invalid UTF-8 will now report the broken character at
+the correct location.
@@ -489,25 +489,54 @@ static void fp_ungetc(int c, struct tok_state *tok) {
 
 /* Check whether the characters at s start a valid
    UTF-8 sequence. Return the number of characters forming
-   the sequence if yes, 0 if not.  */
-static int valid_utf8(const unsigned char* s)
+   the sequence if yes, 0 if not.  The special cases match
+   those in stringlib/codecs.h:utf8_decode.
+*/
+static int
+valid_utf8(const unsigned char* s)
 {
     int expected = 0;
     int length;
-    if (*s < 0x80)
+    if (*s < 0x80) {
         /* single-byte code */
         return 1;
-    if (*s < 0xc0)
-        /* following byte */
-        return 0;
-    if (*s < 0xE0)
+    } else if (*s < 0xE0) {
+        /* \xC2\x80-\xDF\xBF -- 0080-07FF */
+        if (*s < 0xC2) {
+            /* invalid sequence
+               \x80-\xBF -- continuation byte
+               \xC0-\xC1 -- fake 0000-007F */
+            return 0;
+        }
         expected = 1;
-    else if (*s < 0xF0)
+    } else if (*s < 0xF0) {
+        /* \xE0\xA0\x80-\xEF\xBF\xBF -- 0800-FFFF */
+        if (*s == 0xE0 && *(s + 1) < 0xA0) {
+            /* invalid sequence
+               \xE0\x80\x80-\xE0\x9F\xBF -- fake 0000-0800 */
+            return 0;
+        } else if (*s == 0xED && *(s + 1) >= 0xA0) {
+            /* Decoding UTF-8 sequences in range \xED\xA0\x80-\xED\xBF\xBF
+               will result in surrogates in range D800-DFFF. Surrogates are
+               not valid UTF-8 so they are rejected.
+               See https://www.unicode.org/versions/Unicode5.2.0/ch03.pdf
+               (table 3-7) and http://www.rfc-editor.org/rfc/rfc3629.txt */
+            return 0;
+        }
         expected = 2;
-    else if (*s < 0xF8)
+    } else if (*s < 0xF5) {
+        /* \xF0\x90\x80\x80-\xF4\x8F\xBF\xBF -- 10000-10FFFF */
+        if (*(s + 1) < 0x90 ? *s == 0xF0 : *s == 0xF4) {
+            /* invalid sequence -- one of:
+               \xF0\x80\x80\x80-\xF0\x8F\xBF\xBF -- fake 0000-FFFF
+               \xF4\x90\x80\x80- -- 110000- overflow */
+            return 0;
+        }
         expected = 3;
-    else
+    } else {
+        /* invalid start byte */
         return 0;
+    }
     length = expected + 1;
     for (; expected; expected--)
         if (s[expected] < 0x80 || s[expected] >= 0xC0)
@@ -535,7 +564,7 @@ ensure_utf8(char *line, struct tok_state *tok)
                      "in file %U on line %i, "
                      "but no encoding declared; "
                      "see https://peps.python.org/pep-0263/ for details",
-                     badchar, tok->filename, tok->lineno + 1);
+                     badchar, tok->filename, tok->lineno);
         return 0;
     }
     return 1;
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		@@ -0,0 +1,2 @@
		Loading a file with invalid UTF-8 will now report the broken character at
		the correct location.