Issue #13560: os.strerror() now uses the current locale encoding instead of UTF-8
diff --git a/Python/errors.c b/Python/errors.c
index 36b8c54..122e444 100644
--- a/Python/errors.c
+++ b/Python/errors.c
@@ -343,9 +343,7 @@
PyObject *message;
PyObject *v, *args;
int i = errno;
-#ifndef MS_WINDOWS
- char *s;
-#else
+#ifdef MS_WINDOWS
WCHAR *s_buf = NULL;
#endif /* Unix/Windows */
@@ -355,11 +353,14 @@
#endif
#ifndef MS_WINDOWS
- if (i == 0)
- s = "Error"; /* Sometimes errno didn't get set */
- else
- s = strerror(i);
- message = PyUnicode_DecodeUTF8(s, strlen(s), "ignore");
+ if (i != 0) {
+ char *s = strerror(i);
+ message = PyUnicode_DecodeLocale(s, 1);
+ }
+ else {
+ /* Sometimes errno didn't get set */
+ message = PyUnicode_FromString("Error");
+ }
#else
if (i == 0)
message = PyUnicode_FromString("Error"); /* Sometimes errno didn't get set */