The bug which #27273 fixes (for Windows) is really very old, it goes back to a Jan. 11, 2012 (over a year before Julia v0.1 was released!) commit by @jeff.bezanson to j/libc.j (over a year before Julia v0.1 was released!). The comment by @alkorang : The problem was invalid UTF-8 characters from s…

Strftime & strptime bug #27239 is present on all platforms, not just Windows

mbauman Split this topic May 28, 2018, 4:51pm 4

3 posts were split to a new topic: UTF8 space/difficulty tradeoffs

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Changes to the representation of Char Internals & Design	14	2832	December 12, 2017
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Julia's UTF-8 handling [vs. new Python's 3.7 UTF-8 PEP 540] Internals & Design	29	4600	January 24, 2018
Problems with strings which contain unicode characters on julia 0.7-DEV General Usage	2	524	October 6, 2017
Using/workaround for unsupported/EOLd operating systems, e.g. CentOS 6. Was: Test julia basic functionality General Usage question	25	1445	March 6, 2024