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Windows 8 UTF-8 username decoding problem #508

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szigetigabor opened this issue May 28, 2014 · 1 comment
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Windows 8 UTF-8 username decoding problem #508

szigetigabor opened this issue May 28, 2014 · 1 comment

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@szigetigabor
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What steps will reproduce the problem?

  1. install python 3.4 and psutil 2.1.1 on Windows 8
  2. create system_infos.py file with the following line:
    import psutil
    user_info=psutil.users()
    print(str(user_info))
  3. python system_infos.py

What is the expected output?

What do you see instead?
Traceback (most recent call last):
...
File "c:\Python34\lib\site-packages\psutil__init__.py", line 1815, in users
return _psplatform.users()
return net_io_counters(pernic)
File "c:\Python34\lib\site-packages\psutil_pswindows.py", line 184, in users
rawlist = cext.users()
UnicodeDecodeError: 'utf-8' codec can't decode byte 0xf3 in position 3: invalid
continuation byte

C:\Documents and Settings\Alsómocsolád 3>

What version of psutil are you using?
2.1.1

What Python version?
3.4

On what operating system?
Windows 8

Is it 32bit or 64bit version?
64bit

Please provide any additional information below.
This problem is same as the previously solved ticket. (https://code.google.com/p/psutil/issues/detail?id=446)
Please replace the non UNICODE characters with '?' character.

Problems is here:
https://github.com/giampaolo/psutil/blob/master/psutil/_psutil_windows.c#L2748

and I think it should be also same problem here:
https://github.com/giampaolo/psutil/blob/master/psutil/_psutil_windows.c#L1413

@sylvainmouquet
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Hi;

I have solved this issue here
#565

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