Petr Prikryl added the comment:
I have worked around a bit differently -- the snippet from the code:
result = time.tzname[0] # simplified version of the original code.
# Because of the bug in Windows libraries, Python 3.3 tried to work around
# some issues. However, the shit hit the fan, and the bug bubbled here.
# The `time.tzname` elements are (unicode) strings; however, they were
# filled with bad content. See https://bugs.python.org/issue16322 for
details.
# Actually, wrong characters were passed instead of the good ones.
# This code should be skipped later by versions of Python that will fix
# the issue.
import platform
if platform.system() == 'Windows':
# The concrete example for Czech locale:
# - cp1250 (windows-1250) is used as native encoding
# - the time.tzname[0] should start with 'Střední Evropa'
# - the ascii('Střední Evropa') should return "'St\u0159edn\xed Evropa'"
# - because of the bug it returns "'St\xf8edn\xed Evropa'"
#
# The 'ř' character has unicode code point `\u0159` (that is hex)
# and the `\xF8` code in cp1250. The `\xF8` was wrongly used
# as a Unicode code point `\u00F8` -- this is for the Unicode
# character 'ø' that is observed in the string.
#
# To fix it, the `result` string must be reinterpreted with a different
# encoding. When working with Python 3 strings, it can probably
# done only through the string representation and `eval()`. Here
# the `eval()` is not very dangerous because the string was obtained
# from the OS library, and the values are limited to certain subset.
#
# The `ascii()` literal is prefixed by `binary` type prefix character,
# `eval`uated, and the binary result is decoded to the correct string.
local_encoding = locale.getdefaultlocale()[1]
b = eval('b' + ascii(result))
result = b.decode(local_encoding)
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