Issue33259
Created on 2018-04-10 21:34 by maggyero, last changed 2018-09-14 17:23 by p-ganssle.
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msg315181 - (view) | Author: Géry (maggyero) * | Date: 2018-04-10 21:34 | |
There seems to be an encoding bug in Python 3.6.5 on Windows with the [timezone constant](https://docs.python.org/3/library/time.html#timezone-constants) `time.tzname`: >>> import time >>> time.tzname ('Paris, Madrid', 'Paris, Madrid (heure d\x92été)') In the second string (the name of the local *DST* timezone), the escape sequence `\x92` is (since it is in a *character* string, not in a byte string) the Unicode code point [U+0092 PRIVATE USE 2 (PU2)](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Unicode_characters), instead of the Unicode code point [U+2019 RIGHT SINGLE QUOTATION MARK](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Unicode_characters) as expected, which would have been displayed as `’` or `\u2019`, so `'Paris, Madrid (heure d’été)'`. This `\x92` obviously comes from the 0x92 byte of the [CP-1252 encoding](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Windows-1252) for the `’` character, but the byte has been badly handled in `time.tzname` somehow. Indeed, quoting the [‘Lexical analysis’](https://docs.python.org/3/reference/lexical_analysis.html#string-and-bytes-literals) chapter from the *Language Reference*: > In a bytes literal, hexadecimal and octal escapes denote the byte with > the given value. In a string literal, these escapes denote a Unicode > character with the given value. |
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msg325334 - (view) | Author: Karthikeyan Singaravelan (xtreak) * ![]() |
Date: 2018-09-14 08:37 | |
Seems like formatting timezone names on Windows has a lot of issues. I don't if it's related to the ones reported before but just like to add reference comment with more issues : https://bugs.python.org/msg302937 Thanks |
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2018-09-14 17:23:32 | p-ganssle | set | nosy:
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2018-09-14 08:37:10 | xtreak | set | nosy:
+ xtreak messages: + msg325334 |
2018-04-10 21:34:20 | maggyero | create |