[New-bugs-announce] [issue26227] Windows: socket.gethostbyaddr(name) fails for non-ASCII hostname

[STINNER Victor]

New submission from STINNER Victor:

On Windows, socket.gethostbyaddr() must decode the hostname from the ANSI code page, not from UTF-8. See for example this issue:
https://bugs.python.org/issue26226#msg259077

Attached patch changes the socket module to decode hostnames from the ANSI code page on Windows.

See also issues #9377, #16652 and #5004.

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components: Unicode, Windows
messages: 259078
nosy: ebarry, ezio.melotti, haypo, paul.moore, steve.dower, tim.golden, zach.ware
priority: normal
severity: normal
status: open
title: Windows: socket.gethostbyaddr(name) fails for non-ASCII hostname
versions: Python 3.5, Python 3.6

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