RC1: Unable to read files with accents in names on Windows

[José Matos]

On Thu, 2024-01-25 at 09:31 +0100, Enrico Forestieri wrote:
> After investigating this I now know why. Capturing the generated
> script in a file reveals that it is actually encoded in a 8 bit
> encoding on Windows, despite the fact that the first line of the
> script says it is encoded in utf-8.

Basically it comes to the difference between bytes and string. In
Python 2 they are the same.

In Python 3 the line that states that the content is utf8 is a no-op
since all code files need to be in that encoding.

https://docs.python.org/3/howto/unicode.html#the-string-type


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José Abílio