Comment 14 for bug 340394

referring to #12

As noted in the inital Q&A, I aim to retrieve the log by a scipt ( not interactive in windows console).
Also, this approach is not cross-platform. e.g. when my sphinx project is run on linux, this cp1252 is not useful.

> chcp = subprocess.Popen(('chcp', '1252'), bufsize=-1)
---------------------------------------------------------------------------
WindowsError Traceback (most recent call last)

> in <module>()

C:\Programme\pythonxy\python\lib\subprocess.pyc in __init__(self, args, bufsize, executable, stdin, stdout, stderr, preexec_fn, close_fds, shell, cwd, env, universal_newlines, startupinfo, creationflags)
    592 p2cread, p2cwrite,
    593 c2pread, c2pwrite,
--> 594 errread, errwrite)
    595
    596 # On Windows, you cannot just redirect one or two handles: You

C:\Programme\pythonxy\python\lib\subprocess.pyc in _execute_child(self, args, executable, preexec_fn, close_fds, cwd, env, universal_newlines, startupinfo, creationflags, shell, p2cread, p2cwrite, c2pread, c2pwrite, errread, errwrite)
    814 env,
    815 cwd,
--> 816 startupinfo)
    817 except pywintypes.error, e:
    818 # Translate pywintypes.error to WindowsError, which is

WindowsError: [Error 2] Das System kann die angegebene Datei nicht finden

Why can the content of .bzr\checkout\dirstate not be converted in a simple text file that is either UTF-8 or latin1?