[Scons-dev] Unicode support in print_tree / render_tree

[Dirk Bächle]

Hi Remko,

On 13.07.2013 09:32, Remko Tronçon wrote:

> Hi,

>

> I filed a bug report for --tree=... crashing if the dependency tree

> contains unicode characters (

> http://scons.tigris.org/issues/show_bug.cgi?id=2910 ) I fixed the bug

> locally by calling repr() on every element in the tree (which is also

> done by the code that dumps actions)


and thanks for looking a bit into this Unicode issue. We had a 
discussion about these kind of problems a while ago, and reached the 
consensus to not attack these directly, if I recall correctly.
Instead we try to push the general conversion of the sources to Python3, 
and get Unicode support in all the places along the way (not for free, 
that's sure ;) ).

Have you tried to actually compile/build stuff that uses Unicode chars 
in filenames? Or are you only analyzing the dependencies? Can you please 
attach your patch to the Tigris tracker issue or point us to the 
repository, if you cloned the SCons sources?
Then we can have a closer look together and better decide what to do next.

Thanks a lot in advance,

Dirk