On Fri, Feb 22, 2013 at 2:20 PM, Kenny, Jason L <[email protected]>wrote:
> On the Unicode side, I am not sure what the issue is. We have Unicode > issue with python on windows today already, and these seem to be working > fine. Given that I deal with the Unicode for our product here, I happy to > look at this more, or help out. However there should be a major issue I > believe with scons and Unicode. > I assume you mean there should NOT be a major issue. We have in fact had issues with Unicode before, especially in SConf. What encoding should we assume for stdout of a subprocess? Sometimes processes check the locale and encode strings specifically for the locale, assuming they are writing to a console (terminal) which will display them (and sometimes they even check for a tty and do something different). If we guess wrong for the locale of any given string from a subprocess, we may get a decoding error which will throw an exception, or at least we will mangle the text. This happened quite a bit a few years ago in SCons, so I and others added some hacky code to work around it. But it never seemed right. For one example, search the dev archives for " Is SCons really this broken" ( http://thread.gmane.org/gmane.comp.programming.tools.scons.devel/9873). Jason, you were part of that discussion at the time. -- Gary
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