The change I think it is is bootloader: pyi_path_fullpath: use _wfullpath() #5189 <https://github.com/pyinstaller/pyinstaller/pull/5189>. Basically the bootloader (the little program which loads Python and runs your code) used an ascii-only data type to handle filenames which obviously means that it will fall to bits on encountering anything unicode. It’s written in C though which is why you can’t just install from Github. PyInstaller 4.1 is supposed to be released very soon though (actually it should have been released already) …
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