From e0c0ad4e1cab2a91227da490f97d553d9fc54f93 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: owl-from-hogvarts <transftank@mail.ru>
Date: Sun, 31 Jul 2022 11:59:54 +0300
Subject: [PATCH] fix: decode bytes not str

proper fix for #118
Special thanks to @cclauss
---
 pylib/gyp/easy_xml.py | 5 ++++-
 1 file changed, 4 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/pylib/gyp/easy_xml.py b/pylib/gyp/easy_xml.py
index bda1a474..41fb3c7c 100644
--- a/pylib/gyp/easy_xml.py
+++ b/pylib/gyp/easy_xml.py
@@ -123,7 +123,10 @@ def WriteXmlIfChanged(content, path, encoding="utf-8", pretty=False,
 
     default_encoding = locale.getdefaultlocale()[1]
     if default_encoding and default_encoding.upper() != encoding.upper():
-        xml_string = xml_string.encode(encoding)
+        if sys.platform == "win32":
+            if isinstance(xml_string, str):
+                xml_string = xml_string.decode("cp1251")  # str --> bytes
+            xml_string = xml_string.encode(encoding)  # bytes --> str
 
     # Get the old content
     try: