From e8c8814da7bea8b74a4d1ee85ecb02e3d5124caa Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: "Michael W. Hudson" <mwh@python.net>
Date: Wed, 6 Feb 2002 17:09:18 +0000
Subject: [PATCH] Backport loewis' checkin of revision 1.44:

Encode MSVC paths as mbcs. Fixes #509117. 2.2.1 candidate.

(apparently 1.5.2 compatibility is still a goal for distutils, but
I'll wait until that gets amended on the trunk...)
---
 Lib/distutils/msvccompiler.py | 4 ++++
 1 file changed, 4 insertions(+)

diff --git a/Lib/distutils/msvccompiler.py b/Lib/distutils/msvccompiler.py
index 8a67dfc823dc..35336642ae70 100644
--- a/Lib/distutils/msvccompiler.py
+++ b/Lib/distutils/msvccompiler.py
@@ -117,6 +117,10 @@ def get_msvc_paths (path, version='6.0', platform='x86'):
                     if string.upper(p) == path:
                         V = string.split(v,';')
                         for v in V:
+                            try:
+                                v = v.encode("mbcs")
+                            except UnicodeError:
+                                pass
                             if v == '' or v in L: continue
                             L.append(v)
                         break
-- 
2.47.3