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

[Amaury Forgeot d'Arc]

Amaury Forgeot d'Arc <amauryfa at gmail.com> added the comment:

grp.getgrgid() now calls .decode('utf8', errors="surrogateescape").
Even if cygwin does not correctly copy strings from the Windows registry, tarinfo.gname should now contain a string that will at least round trip and give the same value on disk.
Ocean-city, can you check whether this error still reproduces?

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