strftime uses locale-dependant encoding

[arnarb@…]

Throughout trac, strftime is used to format dates/times. The user has however no control over what encoding strftime returns it string in since that is a feature of the underlying C-library. In most cases, the default encoding for the current locale is used.

I use UTF-8 for my trac deployment since that is most compatible with strings from the Subversion system. Dates are however always returned in latin1 encoding since my loacle is latin1-based (there is no utf8 encoding for IS locale available yet).

Trac should centralize date/time formatting in a single module wrapping strftime and friends, and ensure that the formatted dates are returned with the right encoding. I think this would also make date/time formatting more flexible and easy to manipulate by the user, and beneficial for other things as well.

[arnarb@…]

In the meantime, a workaround is to rebind time.strftime to a function that returns a correctly encoded string.

In my case, I added this to the top of ModPythonHandler.py: %% import time original_strftime = time.strftime def strftime_utf8(format, t=None):

return unicode(original_strftime(format,t), 'iso8859-1').encode('utf-8')

time.strftime = strftime_utf8 %%

[arnarb@…]

The formating above was supposed to be: {{ import time original_strftime = time.strftime def strftime_utf8(format, t=None):

return unicode(original_strftime(format,t), 'iso8859-1').encode('utf-8') time.strftime = strftime_utf8

}}

Sorry.

[anonymous]

I'm probably retarded..

import time
original_strftime = time.strftime
def strftime_utf8(format, t=None):
   return unicode(original_strftime(format,t), 'iso8859-1').encode('utf-8')
time.strftime = strftime_utf8

[Christopher Lenz]

#1086 has been marked as duplicate of this ticket.

[Christopher Lenz]

#1499 has been marked as duplicate of this ticket.

[Vincent]

Do the change on source:util.py so it works everywhere

[Christopher Lenz]

Should be fixed in [2251].

[anonymous]

here's a solution to multi-encoding circumstances:

import locale encoding = locale.getlocale()[1] UTF8time = time.strftime(format,t).decode(encoding)

note that locale.setlocale() may have to be used prior.

[anonymous]

i must be retarded as well…

import locale
encoding = locale.getlocale()[1]
UTF8time = time.strftime(format,t).decode(encoding)

note that locale.setlocale() may have to be used prior.