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GeezerVison is showing github.com — [3.15] gh-93251: Decode localized socket error messages from the locale encoding (GH-154683) by miss-islington · Pull Request #154723 · python/cpython

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@miss-islington miss-islington commented Jul 26, 2026 •
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The gai_strerror() and hstrerror() messages were decoded as UTF-8, so
gaierror and herror could be replaced with UnicodeDecodeError if the
message is localized and the locale encoding is not UTF-8.
(cherry picked from commit 5afbb60)

Co-authored-by: Serhiy Storchaka [email protected]
Co-authored-by: Claude Fable 5 [email protected]

  • Issue: socket.getfqdn() UnicodeDecodeError depending on LANG variable #93251

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@serhiy-storchaka @claude @miss-islington
pythongh-93251: Decode localized socket error messages from the local…
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…e encoding (pythonGH-154683)

The gai_strerror() and hstrerror() messages were decoded as UTF-8, so
gaierror and herror could be replaced with UnicodeDecodeError if the
message is localized and the locale encoding is not UTF-8.
(cherry picked from commit 5afbb60)

Co-authored-by: Serhiy Storchaka <[email protected]>
Co-authored-by: Claude Fable 5 <[email protected]>
@bedevere-app bedevere-app Bot mentioned this pull request Jul 26, 2026
socket.getfqdn() UnicodeDecodeError depending on LANG variable #93251
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gh-93251: Decode localized socket error messages from the locale encoding #154683
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