[pywin32-bugs] [ pywin32-Bugs-2706383 ] Crash getting time zone info

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Bugs item #2706383, was opened at 2009-03-24 02:26
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Category: pythonwin
Group: v1.0 (example)
Status: Open
Resolution: None
Priority: 5
Private: No
Submitted By: Bernhard (bernhard_bender)
>Assigned to: Jason R. Coombs (jaraco)
Summary: Crash getting time zone info

Initial Comment:
The following code crashes when the local time zone is a unicode string (e.g. contains German umlauts):

import win32timezone
tzi = win32timezone.TimeZoneInfo.local()

This is probably due to the use of "str" type for standard_name and daylight_name in class TIME_ZONE_INFORMATION



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Comment By: Bernhard (bernhard_bender)
Date: 2009-03-24 07:20

Message:
Some more info:

python 2.5.2
win32 extensions build 213
WinXP SP2 German

Crash occurs when time zone set to +0100: "Westeuropäische Normalzeit"
(umlaut-a)
Does not crash when set to -0500: "Eastern Normalzeit" (pure ASCII)

The attached pathc is a very simple fix that prevents the crash. I may
break other places though, as it changes the types of time zone names to
unicode()

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