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Time.now.zone encoding for German display language in Windows is incorrect

Added by stringsn88keys (Thomas Powell) about 1 year ago. Updated about 1 year ago.

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Target version:
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[ruby-core:112058]

Description

OS:
Verified on Windows 10 and Windows Server 2022 and Ruby 2.7.7 through 3.1.3

Display language:
Verified on German, but may impact other languages in which Time.now.zone returns characters that aren't [A-Za-z].

Time zone:
CET (UTC +01:00) Amsterdam, Berlin, ...

Time.now.zone # => "Mitteleuro\xE3ische Zeit"
Time.now.zone.encoding # => #Encoding:IBM437
puts Time.now.zone # => "Mitteleurop∑ische Zeit" (should be "Mitteleuropäische Zeit")
Time.now.zone.encode(Encoding::UTF_8) # => "Mitteleurop∑ische Zeit"

Doing a force_encoding on all encodings in Encoding.list reveals that ISO-8859-(1..16) and Windows-125(0,2,4,7) work to coerce the ä out of the time zone string:
Time.now.zone.force_encoding(Encoding::WINDOWS_1252) # => "Mitteleuro\xE3ische Zeit"
... but ...
Time.now.zone.force_encoding(Encoding::WINDOWS_1252).encode(Encoding::UTF_8) #=> "Mitteleuropäische Zeit"

Related issue: This improper encoding/rendering caused Ohai's JSON output to be unparseable. Workaround was forcing to Windows-1252.
https://github.com/chef/ohai/pull/1781

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