[issue3824] test_tarfile fails on cygwin (unicode decode error)

[Hirokazu Yamamoto]

Hirokazu Yamamoto <ocean-city at m2.ccsnet.ne.jp> added the comment:

>Doesn't getgrgid() return the untranslated content of /etc/group?
>Then the encoding of this file is relevant.

Yes, /etc/group contains "なし" as gr_name in MBCS,（"なし" means
"nothing"）and I can print it with puts() in grpmodule.c, so it
shouldn't be translated.

>Maybe we should start considering cygwin as a posix platform with win32
>features; but I am not sure to like this idea.

Me neigher.

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