[New-bugs-announce] [issue36779] strptime returns empty string on Windows if default codepage is a Unicode codepage

[Paul Monson]

New submission from Paul Monson <paulmons at gmail.com>:

Need to work around a CRT bug in the use of _tzset() + _tzname[] 
Calling setlocale(LC_CTYPE, "") on a system where GetACP() returns CP_UTF8 results in empty strings in _tzname[].
This causes time.tzname to be an empty string.
I have reported the bug.

One possible workaround is to temporarily change the locale by calling setlocale(LC_CTYPE, "C") before calling _tzset and restore the current locale after if the GetACP() == CP_UTF8 or CP_UTF7

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messages: 341318
nosy: Paul Monson
priority: normal
severity: normal
status: open
title: strptime returns empty string on Windows if default codepage is a Unicode codepage

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