[issue33259] Encoding issue in the name of the local DST timezone

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[issue33259] Encoding issue in the name of the local DST timezone

Karthikeyan Singaravelan added the comment: 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 -- nosy: +xtreak _

[issue33259] Encoding issue in the name of the local DST timezone

New submission from Géry Ogam : 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)