[Geany-Devel] Building geany using msys2 on Windows 10

[Lex Trotman]

> It's Python and not generally on Windows but on my box.
> On my Windows box, Python detects de-DE with cp1252 charset as locale
> and rst2html (which is written in Python) then seems to read the UTF-8
> encoded geany.txt with cp1252 and this fails, obviously.
>
> I didn't find a way yet to change the locale used by Python, the usual
> LANG, LANGUAGE, LC_ALL and friends environment variables do not work.
> It seems Python uses some Windows API to get the locale.
> But it's mainly a local issue on my end, so no worries. I'll take care
> to pass "--input-encoding=utf-8" to rst2html when building the docs for
> the next release and after the release, I'm going to blow up my Windows
> box anyways.

Locales are an evil and dangerous thing from the past!!!  Why should
non-interactive programs run differently on different machines? [stop
before I start ranting]

Ok, so its the Geany build makefile that needs to have the
specification of input encoding added so it works everywhere and no
risk of non-UTF-8 locales breaking it.

Cheers
Lex