[issue8304] strftime and Unicode characters

Terry J. Reedy added the comment: I verified Marks 3.4.1 result with Idle. It strikes me as a bug that a function that maps a unicode format string to a unicode string with interpolations added should ever encode the format to bytes, lets alone using using an encoding that fails or loses infor

[issue8304] strftime and Unicode characters

Mark Lawrence added the comment: Using 3.4.1 and 3.5.0 I get:- time.strftime("%d\u200F%A", time.gmtime()) Traceback (most recent call last): File "", line 1, in UnicodeEncodeError: 'locale' codec can't encode character '\u200f' in position 2: Illegal byte sequence -- nosy: +Breamore

[issue8304] strftime and Unicode characters

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[issue8304] strftime and Unicode characters

STINNER Victor added the comment: > Actually the bug seems related to Windows. See also the issue #10653: wcsftime() doesn't format correctly time zones, so Python 3 uses strftime() instead. -- nosy: +haypo ___ Python tracker

[issue8304] strftime and Unicode characters

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[issue8304] strftime and Unicode characters

AndiDog added the comment: Definitely a Windows problem. I did this on Visual Studio 2008: wchar_t out[1000]; time_t currentTime; time(¤tTime); tm *timeStruct = gmtime(¤tTime); size_t ret = wcsftime(out, 1000, L"%d%A", timeStruct); wprintf(L"ret = %d, out = (%s)\n", ret

[issue8304] strftime and Unicode characters

AndiDog added the comment: Just installed Python 3.1.2, same problem. I'm using Windows XP SP2 with two Python installations (2.6.4 and now 3.1.2). -- ___ Python tracker ___ ___

[issue8304] strftime and Unicode characters

Ezio Melotti added the comment: Actually the bug seems related to Windows. -- components: +Windows nosy: +brian.curtin status: pending -> open versions: +Python 3.2 ___ Python tracker __

[issue8304] strftime and Unicode characters

Ezio Melotti added the comment: This seems to be fixed now, on both 3.1 and 3.2. Can you try with 3.1.2 and see if it works? What operating system are you using? -- nosy: +ezio.melotti priority: -> normal status: open -> pending versions: -Python 2.6 _

[issue8304] strftime and Unicode characters

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[issue8304] strftime and Unicode characters

New submission from AndiDog : There is inconsistent behavior in time.strftime, comparing Python 2.6 and 3.1. In 3.1, non-ASCII Unicode characters seem to get dropped whereas in 2.6 you can keep them using the necessary Unicode-to-UTF8 workaround. This should be fixed if it isn't intended behav