From cb45b6032364b499d9dd64604723efcac5f48ade Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: milde <milde@929543f6-e4f2-0310-98a6-ba3bd3dd1d04>
Date: Sun, 22 Jul 2012 21:20:28 +0000
Subject: [PATCH] Fix [ 3546533 ] unicode error with date directive.

git-svn-id: http://svn.code.sf.net/p/docutils/code/trunk/docutils@7487 929543f6-e4f2-0310-98a6-ba3bd3dd1d04
---
 HISTORY.txt                                           |  4 ++++
 docutils/parsers/rst/directives/misc.py               | 19 +++++++++++++++++--
 .../test_rst/test_directives/test_date.py             | 15 ++++++++++++++-
 3 files changed, 35 insertions(+), 3 deletions(-)

diff --git a/HISTORY.txt b/HISTORY.txt
index f43c44fc0..cf104919b 100644
--- a/HISTORY.txt
+++ b/HISTORY.txt
@@ -28,6 +28,10 @@ Changes Since 0.9.1
   - FileInput/FileOutput: no system-exit on IOError.  The `handle_io_errors`
     option is ignored and will be removed in a future release.
 
+* docutils/parsers/rst/directives/misc.py
+
+  - Fix [ 3546533 ] unicode error with date directive.
+
 * docutils/writers/manpage.py
 
   - Apply [3527401] addmonition's don't preserve indentation
diff --git a/docutils/parsers/rst/directives/misc.py b/docutils/parsers/rst/directives/misc.py
index 6edaf6fa9..09b7fcdec 100644
--- a/docutils/parsers/rst/directives/misc.py
+++ b/docutils/parsers/rst/directives/misc.py
@@ -12,6 +12,7 @@ import re
 import time
 from docutils import io, nodes, statemachine, utils
 from docutils.utils.error_reporting import SafeString, ErrorString
+from docutils.utils.error_reporting import locale_encoding
 from docutils.parsers.rst import Directive, convert_directive_function
 from docutils.parsers.rst import directives, roles, states
 from docutils.parsers.rst.directives.body import CodeBlock, NumberLines
@@ -469,8 +470,22 @@ class Date(Directive):
             raise self.error(
                 'Invalid context: the "%s" directive can only be used within '
                 'a substitution definition.' % self.name)
-        format = '\n'.join(self.content) or '%Y-%m-%d'
-        text = time.strftime(format)
+        format_str = '\n'.join(self.content) or '%Y-%m-%d'
+        if sys.version_info< (3, 0):
+            try:
+                format_str = format_str.encode(locale_encoding or 'utf-8')
+            except UnicodeEncodeError:
+                raise self.warning(u'Cannot encode date format string '
+                    u'with locale encoding "%s".' % locale_encoding)
+        text = time.strftime(format_str)
+        if sys.version_info< (3, 0):
+            # `text` is a byte string that may contain non-ASCII characters:
+            try:
+                text = text.decode(locale_encoding or 'utf-8')
+            except UnicodeDecodeError:
+                text = text.decode(locale_encoding or 'utf-8', 'replace')
+                raise self.warning(u'Error decoding "%s"'
+                    u'with locale encoding "%s".' % (text, locale_encoding))
         return [nodes.Text(text)]
 
 
diff --git a/test/test_parsers/test_rst/test_directives/test_date.py b/test/test_parsers/test_rst/test_directives/test_date.py
index 1142f415b..64ad4d429 100755
--- a/test/test_parsers/test_rst/test_directives/test_date.py
+++ b/test/test_parsers/test_rst/test_directives/test_date.py
@@ -11,6 +11,7 @@ Tests for the misc.py "date" directive.
 from __init__ import DocutilsTestSupport
 import time
 
+from docutils.utils.error_reporting import locale_encoding
 
 def suite():
     s = DocutilsTestSupport.ParserTestSuite()
@@ -56,7 +57,19 @@ Today's date is |date|.
 """],
 ]
 
-
+# some locales return non-ASCII characters for names of days or months
+if locale_encoding in ['utf8', 'utf-8', 'latin-1']:
+    totest['decode date'] = [
+    [u"""\
+    .. |date| date:: t\xc3glich
+    """,
+    u"""\
+    <document source="test data">
+        <substitution_definition names="date">
+            t\xc3glich
+    """],
+    ]
+    
 if __name__ == '__main__':
     import unittest
     unittest.main(defaultTest='suite')
-- 
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