Message 82160 - Python tracker
I tracked down, and I found this mbcs path is set in Python/import.c(1394) find_module. if (PyUnicode_Check(v)) { v = PyUnicode_AsEncodedString(v, Py_FileSystemDefaultEncoding, NULL); if (v == NULL) return NULL; } And this was introduced in r64126 to fix segfault mentioned in issue1342. I'm not understanding why segfault happened but, I feel this issue is the part of big problem. (issue3080)