* Windows always uses mbcs
 * Mac OS X always uses utf-8

As suggested by Antoine, it's better to patch only test_pep277 than the
unittest module.

narrow/wide unicode build.

keep a local copy of the fileystem encoding, instead of calling
sys.getfilesystemencoding() each time.

The filesystem encoding is now constant.

except when configured --with-pydebug.

Emit this warning from the GC shutdown procedure, rather than just printing to stderr.

handler to parse the Makefile file. Avoid a UnicodeDecodeError if the source
code directory name contains a non-ASCII character and the locale encoding is
ASCII.

tarinfo.mtime is an int, whereas getmtime() is a float and it might be
different by something like 3 µs.