Re: [Python-Dev] Installing Python to non-ASCII paths

2015-03-23 Thread Tim Golden
On 23/03/2015 01:46, Glenn Linderman wrote: > On 3/22/2015 8:12 AM, Tim Golden wrote: >> I'll create a £££ user (which is the easiest non-ASCII name to create >> on a UK keyboard) to see how cleanly the latest installer works. > > You can also copy/paste. A path with a Cyrillic, Greek, Chinese,

Re: [Python-Dev] Installing Python to non-ASCII paths

2015-03-22 Thread Glenn Linderman
On 3/22/2015 8:12 AM, Tim Golden wrote: I'll create a £££ user (which is the easiest non-ASCII name to create on a UK keyboard) to see how cleanly the latest installer works. You can also copy/paste. A path with a Cyrillic, Greek, Chinese, Tibetan, Japanese, Armenian, and Romanian character,

Re: [Python-Dev] Installing Python to non-ASCII paths

2015-03-22 Thread Nick Coghlan
On 23 Mar 2015 00:45, "Paul Moore" wrote: > > Something that hit me today, which might become a more common issue > when the Windows installers move towards installing to the user > directory, is that there appear to be some bugs in handling of > non-ASCII paths. > > Two that I spotted are a failu

Re: [Python-Dev] Installing Python to non-ASCII paths

2015-03-22 Thread Paul Moore
On 22 March 2015 at 19:34, Victor Stinner wrote: > Please open an issue, I can take a look. Please describe a scenario to > reproduce the issue. The "issue" with the launcher seems to have bee a red herring. When I set up a test case properly, it worked. I suspect I messed up writing the shebang

Re: [Python-Dev] Installing Python to non-ASCII paths

2015-03-22 Thread Victor Stinner
Hi Paul, Please open an issue, I can take a look. Please describe a scenario to reproduce the issue. Victor 2015-03-22 15:44 GMT+01:00 Paul Moore : > Something that hit me today, which might become a more common issue > when the Windows installers move towards installing to the user > directory,

Re: [Python-Dev] Installing Python to non-ASCII paths

2015-03-22 Thread Tim Golden
On 22/03/2015 15:12, Tim Golden wrote: On 22/03/2015 14:44, Paul Moore wrote: On which note, I'm assuming neither of the issues I've found are major blockers. "pip.exe doesn't work if Python is installed in a directory with non-ASCII characters in the name" can be worked around by using python -

Re: [Python-Dev] Installing Python to non-ASCII paths

2015-03-22 Thread Tim Golden
On 22/03/2015 14:44, Paul Moore wrote: On which note, I'm assuming neither of the issues I've found are major blockers. "pip.exe doesn't work if Python is installed in a directory with non-ASCII characters in the name" can be worked around by using python -m pip, and the launcher issue by using a

[Python-Dev] Installing Python to non-ASCII paths

2015-03-22 Thread Paul Moore
Something that hit me today, which might become a more common issue when the Windows installers move towards installing to the user directory, is that there appear to be some bugs in handling of non-ASCII paths. Two that I spotted are a failure of the "script wrappers" installed by pip to work wit