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authorWilliam Grzybowski <wg@FreeBSD.org>2018-09-07 17:10:39 (GMT)
committerVictor Stinner <vstinner@redhat.com>2018-09-07 17:10:39 (GMT)
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bpo-34604: Fix possible mojibake in pwd.getpwnam() and grp.getgrnam() (GH-9098)
Pass the user/group name as Unicode to the formatting function, instead of always decoding a bytes string from UTF-8.
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+Fix possible mojibake in the error message of `pwd.getpwnam` and
+`grp.getgrnam`. Patch by William Grzybowski.