[New-bugs-announce] [issue18109] os.uname() crashes if hostname contains non-ascii characters

[Dominik Richter]

New submission from Dominik Richter:

To reproduce (tested on Arch Linux, python 3.3.2):

  sudo hostname hât
  python -c "import os; os.uname()"

produces:

  Traceback (most recent call last):
    File "<string>", line 1, in <module>
  UnicodeDecodeError: 'ascii' codec can't decode byte 0xc3 in position 1: ordinal not in range(128)

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components: Unicode
messages: 190413
nosy: Dominik.Richter, ezio.melotti
priority: normal
severity: normal
status: open
title: os.uname() crashes if hostname contains non-ascii characters
type: crash
versions: Python 3.3

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