Don't use Windows in March ;-)

I have just stumbled over a crazy FormEncode DateValidator bug that only 
appears on Windows systems in March:

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import sys
import locale
from datetime import datetime
from formencode.validators import DateValidator

locale.setlocale(locale.LC_ALL, 'german')
print "Python", sys.version
print "Platform", sys.platform
print "Encoding", locale.getlocale()[1]
print "Month", datetime.now().strftime("%B")

# Only on a German Win XP systems in March, we get
# a UnicodeDecodeError instead of an Invalid Exception
# because Win XP uses the "cp1252" encoding
# and the month March has an Umlaut in German.

d = DateValidator(today_or_after=True)
try:
     d.to_python(datetime(2000, 1, 1))
except Exception, e:
     print "Error", e

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The reason is that FormEncode tries to decode the output of strftime() 
with utf-8, but Win XP uses cp1252. Now the month March has an umlaut in 
German (März), so FormEncode tries to decode the cp1252 Umlaut as utf-8, 
which fails with a UnicodeDecodeError.

The reason why FormEncode decodes the strftime() value is that it needs 
to be merged into the messages which are Unicode (see also bug #1693684 
at 
http://sf.net/tracker2/index.php?func=detail&aid=1693684&group_id=91231&atid=596416).

The solution is to take the encoding from the current locale setting 
that is used by strftime() instead of always assuming utf-8.

I have already submitted this to the SF Patch tracker:
http://sf.net/tracker2/?func=detail&aid=2666139&group_id=91231&atid=596418

-- Christoph

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