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Author	loewis
Recipients	loewis
Date	2010-10-14.06:10:09
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Message-id	<1287036613.43.0.313046805894.issue10097@psf.upfronthosting.co.za>
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Reportedly, platform.uname gives UnicodeError for non-ASCII computer names on Windows, see http://www.pasteall.org/16215 I think it is incorrect that _node uses socket.gethostname on Windows. uname() should return the local hostname (i.e. the one that the system itself believes to have), independent of the network configuration or DNS. Therefore, I think it should return the COMPUTERNAME environment variable, or the result of the GetComputerName() API.

Reportedly, platform.uname gives UnicodeError for non-ASCII computer names on Windows, see http://www.pasteall.org/16215

I think it is incorrect that _node uses socket.gethostname on Windows. uname() should return the local hostname (i.e. the one that the system itself believes to have), independent of the network configuration or DNS.

Therefore, I think it should return the COMPUTERNAME environment variable, or the result of the GetComputerName() API.

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