gyp: fix for non-acsii userprofile name on Windows

jfhenriques · TooTallNate · commit 39a06bc6092d · 2015-05-24T15:11:30.000-07:00
Squashed commit of the following: commit 9f3a1b2 Author: João Henriques <joaoh88@gmail.com> Date: Tue Dec 17 21:14:18 2013 +0000 Update easy_xml.py Better handling of encoding commit a8b4942 Author: João Henriques <joaoh88@gmail.com> Date: Thu Dec 12 04:09:38 2013 +0000 Quick and dirty fix to allow WriteXmlIfChanged to write xml in utf-8, converting latin-1 directory paths. Closes #366. Closes #554. Fixes #297. Fixes #404. Fixes #476.
diff --git a/gyp/pylib/gyp/easy_xml.py b/gyp/pylib/gyp/easy_xml.py
@@ -115,6 +115,11 @@ def WriteXmlIfChanged(content, path, encoding='utf-8', pretty=False,
   xml_string = XmlToString(content, encoding, pretty)
   if win32 and os.linesep != '\r\n':
     xml_string = xml_string.replace('\n', '\r\n')
+    
+  try:
+    xml_string = xml_string.encode(encoding)
+  except Exception:
+    xml_string = unicode(xml_string, 'latin-1').encode(encoding)
 
   # Get the old content
   try:
