BUG: `UnicodeError` when using `Period.strftime` with non-utf8 locale · Issue #46319 · pandas-dev/pandas (original) (raw)

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Reproducible Example

import pandas as pd import locale

locale.setlocale(locale.LC_ALL, "zh_CN") p = pd.Period("2018-03-11 13:00", freq="H") print(p.strftime("%p")) # UnicodeDecodeError: 'utf-8' codec can't decode byte 0xcf ...

Issue Description

Period.strftime("%p") prints the locale-specific version of AM or PM. When the locale uses a non-utf8 compliant encoding, it crashes.

This bug does not happen with others, for example Timestamp.strftime.

Expected Behavior

No error, printing the actual string representing AM or PM

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