fixing ansi path related issues

[Chudesnov]

As I've already mentioned, paths passed to vcbuild/msbuild are still encoded incorrectly on non-Latin editions of Windows. Here's a more flexible solution that, hopefully, will fix ANSI→UTF encoding issues on Windows 2000 and higher.

Fixes: #297

[Sogl]

👍

[bnoordhuis]

Is this still an issue? The patch should be sent to the upstream gyp project but I'll be happy to cherry-pick it once it lands.

[Chudesnov]

Yes, it is.

No problem, I'll submit a pull request to bnoordhuis/gyp when I get home.

[bnoordhuis]

I'm not the upstream, https://code.google.com/p/gyp is. :-)

Sending patches to Google projects is kind of hassle (need to check out depot_tools, upload patch with git-cl) but I'll be happy to walk you through it if you get stuck. Please post the link to the CL in the issue when you're done so we can track it.

[Chudesnov]

It seems that depot_tools and gclient in particular suffer from the very same bug - incorrectly re-encoding ansi paths into unicode. Gonna try to fix that as well :)

[roman-yerin]

@Chudesnov any chance to fix it in upstream?

[bnoordhuis]

Seeing how there has been no follow-up, I'll go ahead and close this.