Mysterious 8-bit characters appear in the string returned by strftime.
$ python
Python 2.7.2 (default, Oct 27 2011, 01:36:46)
[GCC 4.6.1 20111003 (Red Hat 4.6.1-10)] on linux2
Type "help", "copyright", "credits" or "license" for more information.
>>> import time, locale
>>> locale.setlocale(locale.LC_TIME, ('fi_FI', 'UTF-8'))
'fi_FI.UTF-8'
>>> time.strftime("%a, %d %b %Y %H:%M:%S %z (%Z)")
'ti, 03 tammi\xc2\xa0 2012 14:52:47 +0200 (EET)'
>>>
$ python3
Python 3.2.1 (default, Jul 11 2011, 18:55:33)
[GCC 4.6.1 20110627 (Red Hat 4.6.1-1)] on linux2
Type "help", "copyright", "credits" or "license" for more information.
>>> import time, locale
>>> locale.setlocale(locale.LC_TIME, ('fi_FI', 'UTF-8'))
'fi_FI.UTF-8'
>>> time.strftime("%a, %d %b %Y %H:%M:%S %z (%Z)")
'ti, 03 tammi\xa0 2012 14:51:57 +0200 (EET)'
>>>
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