Better, simpler fix than #250

src/zc/buildout/buildout.py

@@ -50,13 +50,6 @@ if PY3:
 else:
     text_type = unicode
 
-def fs_to_text(fs_name):
-    """Return filesystem name always as unicode(2)/str(3)."""
-    if not isinstance(fs_name, text_type):
-        fs_name = fs_name.decode(sys.getfilesystemencoding(),
-                                 'surrogateescape')
-    return fs_name
-
 def _print_options(sep=' ', end='\n', file=None):
     return sep, end, file
 
@@ -1632,23 +1625,20 @@ def _open(base, filename, seen, dl_options, override, downloaded):
 ignore_directories = '.svn', 'CVS', '__pycache__'
 _dir_hashes = {}
 def _dir_hash(dir):
-    dir = fs_to_text(dir)
-    # ^^^ fs_to_text ensures unicode, needed for os.walk() on python2 to work
-    # well with non-ascii filenames.
     dir_hash = _dir_hashes.get(dir, None)
     if dir_hash is not None:
         return dir_hash
     hash = md5()
     for (dirpath, dirnames, filenames) in os.walk(dir):
-        dirnames[:] = [fs_to_text(dirname) for dirname in dirnames]
-        filenames[:] = [fs_to_text(filename) for filename in filenames]
         dirnames[:] = sorted(n for n in dirnames if n not in ignore_directories)
         filenames[:] = sorted(f for f in filenames
                               if (not (f.endswith('pyc') or f.endswith('pyo'))
                                   and os.path.exists(os.path.join(dirpath, f)))
                           )
-        hash.update(' '.join(dirnames).encode('utf-8'))
-        hash.update(' '.join(filenames).encode('utf-8'))
+        for_hash = ' '.join(dirnames + filenames)
+        if isinstance(for_hash, text_type):
+            for_hash = for_hash.encode()
+        hash.update(for_hash)
         for name in filenames:
             path = os.path.join(dirpath, name)
             if name == 'entry_points.txt':