[Bug 1473533] Re: CountryNameDict function trying to parse UTF-8 iso3166.tab as US-ASCII

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This bug was fixed in the package python-tz - 2014.10~dfsg1-0ubuntu2

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python-tz (2014.10~dfsg1-0ubuntu2) wily; urgency=medium

  * debian/patches/use_utf8_encoding.patch:
    - use utf8 encoding to be compatible with new tzdata versions
      (lp: #1473533)

 -- Sebastien Bacher <seb128 at ubuntu.com>  Tue, 29 Sep 2015 15:08:16
+0200

** Changed in: python-tz (Ubuntu)
       Status: Fix Committed => Fix Released

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Title:
  CountryNameDict function trying to parse UTF-8 iso3166.tab as US-ASCII

Status in pytz:
  Fix Released
Status in python-tz package in Ubuntu:
  Fix Released
Status in python-tz package in Debian:
  New

Bug description:
  Since tzdata-2015e there are UTF-8 characters in iso3166.tab, see:
  http://mm.icann.org/pipermail/tz/2015-May/022258.html
  http://mm.icann.org/pipermail/tz/2015-June/022306.html

  pytz/__init__.py:_CountryNameDict(LazyDict) is using:
          zone_tab = open_resource('iso3166.tab')
          try:
              for line in zone_tab.readlines():
                  line = line.decode('US-ASCII')

  to read it and fails on AX, CI, RE lines, using UTF-8 fixes the issues
  and should work OK even with older tzdata releases.

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