Joseph Brill

> If using locale.getpreferredencoding(False) doesn't break utf-8 systems, and fixes the users, I think we can just make the change and run full test suite here and call it a...

> We've had simliar in other corners of SCons before, so I think we can avoid testing multi-locale and trust our users will let us know (as just happened) and...

Windows: `locale.getpreferredencoding()='cp1252'`

Additional research notes: In a test VM with language pack Chinese(Simplified, China) installed and set as the current locale, the active code page is `cp936`. With a similar example as...

> I pushed a WIP PR to see how this change fares on all our CI testing platforms. Not being argumentative, simply listing some questions to ponder. Is passing all...

Just a thought, is there any chance that installing the ~pyconf~ pkgconf package on Windows could be made to work? I know it adds a pkg-config.exe to the python script...

Good. I didn't realize pkgconf requires 3.9+ anyway.

Quick google result. Possibly out of luck as VS2017 may be too old. https://www.msys2.org/docs/ci/ > Appveyor > > Appveyor provides a MSYS2 installation on all their images under C:\msys64, see...

Looks like `C:/msys64/usr/bin/pkg-config.EXE`: ``` [00:04:41] 244/1309 ( 18.64%) C:\Python37\python.exe test\CPPDEFINES\pkg-config.py [00:04:41] C:\projects\scons\scripts\scons.py returned 2 [00:04:41] STDOUT ========================================================================= [00:04:41] scons: Reading SConscript files ... [00:04:41] [00:04:41] STDERR ========================================================================= [00:04:41] Unknown option...

**Off-topic: Windows runner 2022 and 2025 environment configuration diagnostics [WIP].** I have found the following diagnostic information useful when trying to figure out how the windows runner environments are configured....