Change mbcs encoding to utf-8

Pythonwin/pywin/__init__.py

@@ -4,7 +4,7 @@
 is_platform_unicode = 0
 
 # Ditto default_platform_encoding - not referenced and will die.
-default_platform_encoding = "mbcs"
+default_platform_encoding = "utf-8"
 
 # This one *is* real and used - but in practice can't be changed.
 default_scintilla_encoding = "utf-8"  # Scintilla _only_ supports this ATM

Pythonwin/pywin/tools/hierlist.py

@@ -180,7 +180,7 @@ def AddItem(self, parentHandle, item, hInsertAfter=commctrl.TVI_LAST):
         if bitmapSel is None:
             bitmapSel = bitmapCol
         ## if isinstance(text, str):
-        ##  text = text.encode("mbcs")
+        ##  text = text.encode("utf-8")
         hitem = self.listControl.InsertItem(
             parentHandle,
             hInsertAfter,

com/win32com/client/build.py

@@ -30,8 +30,6 @@
 # literals like a quote char and backslashes makes life a little painful to
 # always render the string perfectly - so just punt and fall-back to a repr()
 def _makeDocString(s):
-    if sys.version_info < (3,):
-        s = s.encode("mbcs")
     return repr(s)
 
 

com/win32com/client/genpy.py

@@ -1035,7 +1035,7 @@ def BuildOleItemsFromType(self):
 
         return oleItems, enumItems, recordItems, vtableItems
 
-    def open_writer(self, filename, encoding="mbcs"):
+    def open_writer(self, filename, encoding="utf-8"):
         # A place to put code to open a file with the appropriate encoding.
         # Does *not* set self.file - just opens and returns a file.
         # Actually returns a handle to a temp file - finish_writer then deletes
@@ -1107,7 +1107,7 @@ def do_gen_file_header(self):
         # We assert this is it may indicate somewhere in pywin32 that needs
         # upgrading.
         assert self.file.encoding, self.file
-        encoding = self.file.encoding  # or "mbcs"
+        encoding = self.file.encoding
 
         print("# -*- coding: %s -*-" % (encoding,), file=self.file)
         print("# Created by makepy.py version %s" % (makepy_version,), file=self.file)

com/win32com/client/makepy.py

@@ -427,12 +427,9 @@ def main():
         path = os.path.dirname(outputName)
         if path != "" and not os.path.exists(path):
             os.makedirs(path)
-        if sys.version_info > (3, 0):
-            f = open(outputName, "wt", encoding="mbcs")
-        else:
-            import codecs  # not available in py3k.
 
-            f = codecs.open(outputName, "w", "mbcs")
+        f = open(outputName, "wt", encoding="utf-8")
+
     else:
         f = None
 

isapi/install.py

@@ -228,7 +228,7 @@ def FindWebServer(options, server_desc):
     # make sure server_desc is unicode (could be mbcs if passed in
     #  sys.argv).
     if server_desc and not isinstance(server_desc, str):
-        server_desc = server_desc.decode("mbcs")
+        server_desc = server_desc.decode("utf-8")
 
     # get the server (if server_desc is None, the default site is acquired)
     server = GetWebServer(server_desc)

win32/Demos/service/pipeTestServiceClient.py

@@ -129,7 +129,7 @@ def main():
                 verbose = 1
             if o == "-l":
                 testLargeMessage(server)
-        msg = " ".join(args).encode("mbcs")
+        msg = " ".join(args).encode("utf-8")
     except getopt.error as msg:
         print(msg)
         my_name = os.path.split(sys.argv[0])[1]

win32/Demos/win32gui_dialog.py

@@ -84,7 +84,7 @@ def toparam(self):
                     # LVM_SETITEMW etc.
                     val = val + "\0"
                     if isinstance(val, str):
-                        val = val.encode("mbcs")
+                        val = val.encode("utf-8")
                     str_buf = array.array("b", val)
                     vals.append(str_buf.buffer_info()[0])
                     vals.append(len(val))

win32/Demos/winprocess.py

@@ -206,7 +206,7 @@ def run(cmd, mSec=None, stdin=None, stdout=None, stderr=None, **kw):
     try:
         cmd = open(cmd_name, "w+b")
         out = open(out_name, "w+b")
-        cmd.write(cmdString.encode("mbcs"))
+        cmd.write(cmdString.encode("utf-8"))
         cmd.seek(0)
         print(
             "CMD.EXE exit code:",