[pypy-dev] Help needed: are you running windows with a non-ascii interface?

[Matti Picus]

Someone on stackoverflow asked why PyPy cannot run pandas. Here is the 
error, reformatted from the garbled original:

https://gist.github.com/mattip/374e8ba49e2dd2e2b0d5c46a5cd612ed


While there was an off-by-one error with the conversion when building 
time.tzname from the OS c call, I think the issue might be deeper, and 
related to this still-open cpython bug 
https://bugs.python.org/issue16322 where non-ascii tznames are a mess to 
decode.


Could someone with a non-ascii (russian, chinese, czech, french, ...) 
interface in windows

- check what pypy3 returns for time.tzname? There is no code to decode 
it, so it is probably a sting of bytes. What encoding is it in?

- try to reproduce the pandas fail on pypy3 (you will need a compiler 
and a fair amount of time)

- see if 6569684f0955 (available after tonight's build on downloads) 
fixes pandas?

Thanks,

Matti