[Distutils] string types for paths in PEP 517

[Nick Coghlan]

On 5 September 2017 at 01:36, Nathaniel Smith <njs at pobox.com> wrote:
> On Tue, Sep 5, 2017 at 1:00 AM, Thomas Kluyver <thomas at kluyver.me.uk> wrote:
>> - We already have workarounds for the commonest case of UTF-8 paths + C
>> locale: ignore the locale and treat paths as UTF-8.
>
> Only in 3.7, I think? Or do you mean, backends should be doing this
> manually on Python 2?

The frontend controls the locale that the backend runs in, so the
frontend can set C.UTF-8 even if the frontend itself is launched in
the C locale.

Cheers,
Nick.

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