distutil's build_scripts doesn't read utf-8 in all locales

[hagen]

BPO	9887
Nosy	@tarekziade, @merwok
Superseder	bpo-9561: distutils: set encoding to utf-8 for input and output files

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assignee = 'https://github.com/tarekziade'
closed_at = <Date 2010-09-21.10:33:34.680>
created_at = <Date 2010-09-17.13:19:51.593>
labels = ['library']
title = "distutil's build_scripts doesn't read utf-8 in all locales"
updated_at = <Date 2010-09-21.10:33:34.661>
user = 'https://bugs.python.org/hagen'

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[hagen]

"LANG=C python3 setup.py build_scripts" chokes on UTF-8 encoded scripts. The problem is that "copy_scripts" uses "open" without specifying an encoding. This issue may be related to bpo-9561.

[merwok]

Does POSIX mandate an encoding when using the C locale?

[hagen]

Why does this matter? PEP-3120 specifies UTF-8 as the default source encoding.

[merwok]

Okay. Then this bug is part of bpo-9561.