From bec54e827a6d99743bad09c9efa5a89e4638ed08 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Eric Mehl <eric@thinkhypothetical.com>
Date: Wed, 26 Jul 2023 15:27:28 -0400
Subject: [PATCH] SConstruct : Check for utf-8 using codec registry

---
 SConstruct | 3 ++-
 1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/SConstruct b/SConstruct
index dfdbac8a501..20099fe448f 100644
--- a/SConstruct
+++ b/SConstruct
@@ -45,10 +45,11 @@ import platform
 import shutil
 import subprocess
 import distutils.dir_util
+import codecs
 
 EnsureSConsVersion( 3, 0, 2 ) # Substfile is a default builder as of 3.0.2
 
-if locale.getpreferredencoding() != "UTF-8" :
+if codecs.lookup( locale.getpreferredencoding() ).name != "utf-8" :
 	# The `Substfile` builder uses `open()` without specifying an encoding, and
 	# so gets Python's default encoding. Unless this is `UTF-8`, any `.py` files
 	# containing unicode characters will be corrupted during installation.