[Scons-users] Unicode characters in source/target names

[Plunket, Tom]

I ran into a project that I'm trying to feed through my SCons setup where the users have Unicode characters in some of their filenames.

However I am getting an exception from scons-2.3.5/SCons/Subst.py substitute(self, args, lvars) which checks to see if the args being passed is a string type (which it is, it's type 'unicode') and then just converts it into an ASCII string. On line 509, "args = str(args)". Of course this fails if any character in the Unicode string is not in the ASCII range.

Is there a known workaround for this? If not, the note in the release notes where "Unicode characters in path names do not work in all circumstances." should be changed to "Unicode characters outside of the ASCII range do not work in path names."

Thanks.
-Tom


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