New submission from Antoine Pitrou <pit...@free.fr>: Locale-based date formatting in py3k (using strftime) crashes when asked to format a month name (or day, I assume) containing non-ASCII characters:
>>> import time >>> import locale >>> time.strftime("%B", (2009,2,1,0,0,0,0,0,0)) 'February' >>> locale.setlocale(locale.LC_TIME, "fr_FR") 'fr_FR' >>> time.strftime("%B", (2009,2,1,0,0,0,0,0,0)) Traceback (most recent call last): File "<stdin>", line 1, in <module> UnicodeDecodeError: 'utf8' codec can't decode bytes in position 1-3: invalid data It works if I specify the encoding explicitly in the locale name so as to coincide with the encoding specified in the error message above (but that's assuming the given encoding-specific locale *is* installed): >>> locale.setlocale(locale.LC_TIME, "fr_FR.UTF-8") 'fr_FR.UTF-8' >>> time.strftime("%B", (2009,2,1,0,0,0,0,0,0)) 'février' ---------- components: Library (Lib) messages: 84163 nosy: pitrou priority: high severity: normal status: open title: Locale-based date formatting crashes on non-ASCII data type: behavior versions: Python 3.0, Python 3.1 _______________________________________ Python tracker <rep...@bugs.python.org> <http://bugs.python.org/issue5562> _______________________________________ _______________________________________________ Python-bugs-list mailing list Unsubscribe: http://mail.python.org/mailman/options/python-bugs-list/archive%40mail-archive.com