Print UTF-8 warning only when actually encountering non-ascii filenames.

1 files changed, 0 insertions, 11 deletions

diff --git a/meson.py b/meson.py
index 57cc6dc..13bc870 100755
--- a/meson.py
+++ b/meson.py
@@ -18,17 +18,6 @@ from mesonbuild import mesonmain, mesonlib
 import sys, os, locale
 
 def main():
-    # Warn if the locale is not UTF-8. This can cause various unfixable issues
-    # such as os.stat not being able to decode filenames with unicode in them.
-    # There is no way to reset both the preferred encoding and the filesystem
-    # encoding, so we can just warn about it.
-    e = locale.getpreferredencoding()
-    if e.upper() != 'UTF-8' and not mesonlib.is_windows():
-        print('Warning: You are using {!r} which is not a Unicode-compatible '
-              'locale.'.format(e), file=sys.stderr)
-        print('You might see errors if you use UTF-8 strings as '
-              'filenames, as strings, or as file contents.', file=sys.stderr)
-        print('Please switch to a UTF-8 locale for your platform.', file=sys.stderr)
     # Always resolve the command path so Ninja can find it for regen, tests, etc.
     launcher = os.path.realpath(sys.argv[0])
     return mesonmain.run(sys.argv[1:], launcher)