Quick and dirty fix to allow WriteXmlIfChanged to write xml in utf-8, converting latin-1 directory paths.

jfhenriques · jfhenriques · commit a8b49423f7b4 · 2013-12-12T04:09:38.000Z
diff --git a/gyp/pylib/gyp/easy_xml.py b/gyp/pylib/gyp/easy_xml.py
@@ -127,6 +127,11 @@ def WriteXmlIfChanged(content, path, encoding='utf-8', pretty=False,
   # It has changed, write it
   if existing != xml_string:
     f = open(path, 'w')
+    try:
+      dec = unicode(xml_string, 'latin-1').encode('utf-8')
+      xml_string = dec
+    except Exception as inst:
+      pass
     f.write(xml_string)
     f.close()
 
