[issue32921] .pth files cannot contain folders with utf-8 names

Steve Dower added the comment: Yes, it'll have significant side effects. The default file encoding on Windows is your configured code page (1252, in your case), and there's no good way around that default. The easiest immediate fix is to re-encode that file yourself.

[issue32921] .pth files cannot contain folders with utf-8 names

Change by R. David Murray : -- components: +Windows nosy: +paul.moore, steve.dower, tim.golden, zach.ware ___ Python tracker ___

[issue32921] .pth files cannot contain folders with utf-8 names

New submission from Einar Fredriksen : Add "G:\русский язык" to a pth file and start python. it fails with -- Failed to import the site module Traceback (most recent call last): File "C:\Program Files\ROXAR\RMS