No more 'operation completed successfully' in time_zone::get_info
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When no mapping for a Unicode character existed in the target multi-byte code page, we just returned that error from `__std_fs_convert_wide_to_narrow`; instead, we additionally needed to `SetLastError()` after that call.
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We discussed in the weekly maintainer meeting that this resolves the symptom, but not really the root cause of the problem. We're going to apply the PR as a clear improvement, and @strega-nil-ms will file a followup issue to investigate returning the full timezone spec instead of the localized abbreviation as a fallback when the localized abbreviation can't be transcoded from UTF-16 to the narrow encoding specified by the active code page. |
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I observe that this affects the redist, but not in a way that involves synchronized header changes, so it should be fine. ✅ No header changes => no modules impact. |
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I'm mirroring this to the MSVC-internal repo - please notify me if any further changes are pushed. |
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Merge completed successfully! 😹 😸 😻 |
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I guess I have spotted the root cause of the problem correct behavior would be no exception. Trouble begins when As a result, locale of the calendar becomes incompatible with The fix is trivial; just change the former to: The signature of |
When no mapping for a Unicode character existed in the target multi-byte code page, we just returned that error from
__std_fs_convert_wide_to_narrow; instead, we additionally needed toSetLastError()after that call.Fixes #3097 (kind of)
The issue was that if the language of the system was not representable by the current code page, we would throw
GetLastError(); however, last error was never actually set.