[debbugs-tracker] bug#35920: closed (strftime incorrectly assumes that nstrftime will produce UTF-8)

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regarding strftime incorrectly assumes that nstrftime will produce UTF-8
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> strftime incorrectly assumes that nstrftime will produce UTF-8
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> Sun, 26 May 2019 16:41:57 -0400
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> Hi Christopher,
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> Christopher Lam <address@hidden> writes:
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> > Addendum - wish to confirm if guile bug (guile-2.2 on Windows):
> > - set locale to non-Anglo so that (setlocale LC_ALL) returns
> > "French_France.1252"
> > - call (strftime "%B" 4000000) - that's 4x10^6 -- this should return
> > "février 1970"
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> > but the following error arises:
> > Throw to key `decoding-error' with args `("scm_from_utf8_stringn" "input
> > locale conversion error" 0 #vu8(102 233 118 114 105 101 114 32 49 57 55
> > 48))'.
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> > Is this a bug?
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> Yes.  Guile's 'strftime' procedure currently assumes that the underlying
> 'nstrftime' C function (from Gnulib) will produce output in UTF-8,
> although it almost certainly produces output in the locale encoding.
> Indeed, the bytevector #vu8(102 233 118 114 105 101 114 32 49 57 55 48)
> represents the characters "février 1970" in Windows-1252 encoding.
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> I'm CC'ing this reply to <address@hidden>, so that a bug ticket will
> be created.  In the future, that's the preferred address for sending bug
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> Anyway, thanks for letting us know about this.  I'll work on it soon.
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>       Mark
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> Sun, 30 Jun 2019 21:51:42 +0200
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> Hi Mark,
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> Mark H Weaver <address@hidden> skribis:
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> > Here's a patch that might fix the problem, but I don't have time to test
> > it right now.
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> It works! :-)  I wrote tests and pushed it as
> ab2fd70ef1e36c6532128b73082809ef3c056556.
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> I forgot to change the commit author to you before pushing, apologies!
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> Thanks,
> Ludo’.
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