[issue10945] bdist_wininst depends on MBCS codec, unavailable on non-Windows

[Éric Araujo]

Éric Araujo <merwok at netwok.org> added the comment:

haypo:
> Can't you only work with Unicode and avoid the MBCS encoding?
It is not code under the users’ control (i.e. setup.py) that uses MBCS, but the bdist_wininst command itself.  It used to be runnable from linux, which is great to provide binary installers for Windows users who typically don’t have a compiler.  This is what the bug is about.

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versions:  -Python 3.1

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