Unicode characters break installation in develop.py
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Hi,
The below code fails when a script contains Unicode symbols. io.open uses the encoding returned by locale.getpreferredencoding, which isn't always UTF-8. Is there a way to set the preferred encoding globally in the setup.py file to work around this?
Thanks!
https://github.com/pypa/setuptools/blob/master/setuptools/command/develop.py#L186-187
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Start at setuptools/command/develop.py lines 186-187 and reproduce the failure with a script containing Unicode symbols. Trace how io.open selects its encoding during installation. Done means develop installation handles Unicode scripts successfully without depending on a non-UTF-8 locale.
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