[issue9377] socket, PEP 383: Mishandling of non-ASCII bytes in host/domain names

[Nick]

Nick <spaun2002mobile at gmail.com> added the comment:

I faced with the issue on my own PC. For a Russian version of WinOS default PC name is ИВАН-ПК (C8 C2 C0 CD 2D CF CA in hex) and it returns from gethostbyaddr (CRT) exactly in this form (encoded with system locale cp1251 not UTF8). So when the function PyUnicode_FromString is called, it expects that argument is utf8 encoded string and throws and error.
A lot of 3rd party modules use gethostbyaddr or getfqdn (which uses gethostbyaddr) and I can't just use function that returns names as bytes. Surrogate names are also not acceptable because the name mentioned above becomes ????-??

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