[issue4742] 3.0 distutils byte-compiling -> Syntax error: unknown encoding: cp1252

[John Machin]

John Machin <sjmachin at users.sourceforge.net> added the comment:

A clue:

>>> print(ascii(b'\xa0\x93\x94\xb7'.decode('cp1252')))
'\xa0\u201c\u201d\xb7'

Could be that it only happens where there's a cp1252 character that's
not in latin1; see files x93.py and x94.py (have problem) and xa0b7.py
(doesn't have problem).

Added file: http://bugs.python.org/file12446/py3encbug2.zip

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