[New-bugs-announce] [issue1040] Unicode problem with TZ

[Thomas Heller]

New submission from Thomas Heller:

In my german version of winXP SP2, python3 cannot import the time module:

c:\svn\py3k\PCbuild>python_d
Python 3.0x (py3k:57600M, Aug 28 2007, 07:58:23) [MSC v.1310 32 bit
(Intel)] on win32
Type "help", "copyright", "credits" or "license" for more information.
>>> import time
Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "<stdin>", line 1, in <module>
UnicodeDecodeError: 'utf8' codec can't decode bytes in position 9-11:
invalid data
[36719 refs]
>>> ^Z

The problem is that the libc '_tzname' variable contains umlauts.  For
comparison, here is what Python2.5 does:

c:\svn\py3k\PCbuild>\python25\python
Python 2.5.1 (r251:54863, Apr 18 2007, 08:51:08) [MSC v.1310 32 bit
(Intel)] on win32
Type "help", "copyright", "credits" or "license" for more information.
>>> import time
>>> time.tzname
('Westeurop\xe4ische Normalzeit', 'Westeurop\xe4ische Normalzeit')
>>>

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components: Windows
messages: 55351
nosy: theller
severity: normal
status: open
title: Unicode problem with TZ
versions: Python 3.0

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