martine/ninja — pull request #685 by Ation (2013-10-31 19:39:36+00:00)
Title: Update search to work with latest python

There is a problem. On windows 7 station, with Python 3.3.2 and russian VisualStudio installed, if you are trying to build ninja, you have an error message
"File "platform_helper.py", line 65, in msvc_needs_fs return '/FS ' in out TypeError: Type str doesn't support the buffer API".
So there is attempt to fix this by decoding byte array and ignoring symbols, that could not be decoded. Apparently only non english letters will be decoded and function will return required result.