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

[STINNER Victor]

STINNER Victor <victor.stinner at gmail.com> added the comment:

> Would the proposed change mean that a bdist_wininst built
> with 3.2.0 won’t work with a patched 3.2.3?

The installer doesn't use distutils to read its configuration, so such binary runs with any installed Python version.

> bdist_msi decodes data read from setup.py with MBCS on Windows;
> on other OSes, couldn’t the locale preferred encoding be used?

It would be worse: Linux doesn't use Windows code page. Most modern OSes are now using UTF-8 locale encoding, whereas Windows never use UTF-8 as the ANSI code page.

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