[Scons-dev] Unicode support in print_tree / render_tree

[Dirk Bächle]

Remko,

thanks a lot for the link, I had a short look at your patch.
For our current plans of switching from Python 2.x to 3.x, the code 
changes themselves might not be that helpful right now, because we still 
don't know how exactly our Unicode support will look like internally.

But what's important is that we don't forget about this Value issue that 
you detected.
So it would help us a lot if you could create a simple testcase for 
this, which breaks with the current code but should run successfully in 
the end. A single SConstruct is fine, a full testcase according to 
"QMTest/test-framework.rst" is better. ;)

When rewriting the core sources towards 3.x we could then use this test 
(and others that probably follow) to ensure that things work as expected.

My plan is to open a Wiki page for the whole Unicode conversion, which 
would then contain a link to your issue #2910. So if you attach your 
testcase there, it won't get forgotten.

Regards,

Dirk

On 13.07.2013 10:30, Remko Tronçon wrote:

> Hi Dirk,

>

> On 13 July 2013 10:14, Dirk Bächle <tshortik at gmx.de> wrote:

>> Have you tried to actually compile/build stuff that uses Unicode chars in

>> filenames? Or are you only analyzing the dependencies?

> The real problem I have isn't with actually with files, but with

> Values() with unicode characters in them (which are also printed

> verbatim in the tree).

>

>> Can you please attach

>> your patch to the Tigris tracker issue or point us to the repository, if you

>> cloned the SCons sources?

> https://bitbucket.org/r3mko/scons/commits/1ffc15e2718f03833deaec7f53da5ca67c934d3e

>

> cheers,

> Remko

>