Windows breakage when defaultencoding for non-unicode applications is ...

[bunnyevans]

W10 with default encoding for non-unicode programs = Japanese
(cp932)

Attempt to create a project with esp-idf

= boom.

bang1.txt

This appears to be because python is picking up the system encoding, going "oh, I'm JAPANESE" and then falling flat on its face. So much for unicode...

As a non-python-programmer I am unable to fix this short of having a completely separate windows machine that is entirely in English.

[valeros]

Hi @bunnyevans ! Thanks for the report. Looks like, there is a problem in internal ESP-IDF tools and will be resolved in the next release. Please take a look a this issue espressif/esp-idf#4977

[bunnyevans]

Fascinating, but ideally it should be starting python with whatever magical flags it needs to ignore systemlocale (cp932 et cetera) and running it in unicode.

Possibly like: https://docs.python.org/3/using/windows.html
Section 3.7