From: Victor Stinner <vstinner@python.org>
Date: Tue, 25 Jan 2022 19:02:23 +0000 (+0100)
Subject: bpo-45382: test.pythoninfo: set wmic.exe encoding to OEM (GH-30890)
X-Git-Tag: v3.11.0a5~102
X-Git-Url: http://git.ipfire.org/cgi-bin/gitweb.cgi?a=commitdiff_plain;h=cef0a5458f254c2f8536b928dee25862ca90ffa6;p=thirdparty%2FPython%2Fcpython.git

bpo-45382: test.pythoninfo: set wmic.exe encoding to OEM (GH-30890)
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diff --git a/Lib/test/pythoninfo.py b/Lib/test/pythoninfo.py
index cfd7ac2755d5..d15a11c80b64 100644
--- a/Lib/test/pythoninfo.py
+++ b/Lib/test/pythoninfo.py
@@ -731,9 +731,12 @@ def collect_windows(info_add):
 
     import subprocess
     try:
+        # When wmic.exe output is redirected to a pipe,
+        # it uses the OEM code page
         proc = subprocess.Popen(["wmic", "os", "get", "Caption,Version", "/value"],
                                 stdout=subprocess.PIPE,
                                 stderr=subprocess.PIPE,
+                                encoding="oem",
                                 text=True)
         output, stderr = proc.communicate()
         if proc.returncode: