1340720 - Support unicode characters in paths for install manifests

Status: NEW

(Firefox Build System :: General, defect)

Description

[Michael Shal [:mshal]]

We have a Makefile.in that installs some files in a directory with a unicode character: https://dxr.mozilla.org/mozilla-central/rev/0eef1d5a39366059677c6d7944cfe8a97265a011/toolkit/mozapps/update/tests/Makefile.in#28

I'd like to port this to moz.build with something like this:

if CONFIG['OS_ARCH'] == 'WINNT':
    # TestAUSReadStrings runs during check in the following directory with a
    # Unicode char in order to test bug 473417 on Windows.
#    bug473417dir = u'test_bug473417-ó'
    bug473417dir = u'test_bug473417-\u00F3'
else:
    bug473417dir = 'test_bug473417'

TEST_HARNESS_FILES.xpcshell.toolkit.mozapps.update.tests.data[bug473417dir] += [
    '!TestAUSReadStrings%s' % CONFIG['BIN_SUFFIX'],
    'TestAUSReadStrings1.ini',
    'TestAUSReadStrings2.ini',
    'TestAUSReadStrings3.ini',
]

Comment 1

[Michael Shal [:mshal]]

We have an alternate solution for bug 1340699, so this is no longer blocking other work. However, it would still be nice to have if we upgrade to python3 someday. The unicode support in python2 does not seem to lend itself to an easy fix here.