logilab-common #109740 string conversion bug in date.py when given a month with an accented character (e.g. "décembre") [done]

Trying to read in UTF-8 the month written in Latin-1.

Traceback, when setting, in Documentor, a month which gets to be written with a Latin-1 accented character :
File "[...]/logilab/common/date.py", line 294, in ustrftime
return unicode(somedate.strftime(str(fmt)), encoding)
File "/usr/lib/python2.6/encodings/utf_8.py", line 16, in decode
return codecs.utf_8_decode(input, errors, True)
UnicodeDecodeError: 'utf8' codec can't decode byte 0xe9 in position 1: invalid continuation byte

priorityimportant
typebug
done in0.58.3
load0.100
load left0.000
closed by#97da24fddab9 ustrftime: ask the system for the encoding instead of trying to guess

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in-progressdone2012/11/13 06:57 UTC 
openin-progress2012/10/24 12:49 UTC 
rejectedopen2012/10/24 11:47 UTCsthenault
openrejected

should be fixed in documentor or by setting proper locale

2012/10/24 08:42 UTCsthenault

Comments

  • 2012/10/24 08:37, written by sthenault

    this usually occurs due to bad locale configuration. Hard to fix in logilab.common

  • 2012/10/24 11:48, written by sthenault

    there is actually a bug in ustrftime, which is not properly detecting LC_TIME encoding. Reopening

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Ticket #109740 - latest update on 2012/11/13, created on 2012/10/24 by Vladimir Popescu