5 files changed, 20 insertions, 5 deletions
diff --git a/src/engine/SCons/Node/FS.py b/src/engine/SCons/Node/FS.py
index 8c1161d0..c31ac6c4 100644
--- a/src/engine/SCons/Node/FS.py
+++ b/src/engine/SCons/Node/FS.py
@@ -2654,9 +2654,12 @@ class File(Base):
         if contents[:len(codecs.BOM_UTF16_BE)] == codecs.BOM_UTF16_BE:
             return contents[len(codecs.BOM_UTF16_BE):].decode('utf-16-be')
         try:
-            return contents.decode()
-        except (UnicodeDecodeError, AttributeError) as e:
-            return contents
+            return contents.decode('utf-8')
+        except UnicodeDecodeError as e:
+            try:
+                return contents.decode('latin-1')
+            except UnicodeDecodeError as e:
+                return contents.decode('utf-8', error='backslashreplace')
 
 
     def get_content_hash(self):
diff --git a/src/engine/SCons/Node/FSTests.py b/src/engine/SCons/Node/FSTests.py
index 399ac06a..273f8097 100644
--- a/src/engine/SCons/Node/FSTests.py
+++ b/src/engine/SCons/Node/FSTests.py
@@ -1315,6 +1315,14 @@ class FSTestCase(_tempdirTestCase):
         assert eval('f1.get_text_contents() == u"Foo\x1aBar"'), \
                f1.get_text_contents()
 
+        # Check for string which doesn't have BOM and isn't valid
+        # ASCII
+        test_string = b'Gan\xdfauge'
+        test.write('latin1_file', test_string)
+        f1 = fs.File(test.workpath("latin1_file"))
+        assert f1.get_text_contents() == test_string.decode('latin-1'), \
+               f1.get_text_contents()
+
         def nonexistent(method, s):
             try:
                 x = method(s, create = 0)
diff --git a/src/engine/SCons/Node/__init__.py b/src/engine/SCons/Node/__init__.py
index 0409d3b2..e1867522 100644
--- a/src/engine/SCons/Node/__init__.py
+++ b/src/engine/SCons/Node/__init__.py
@@ -211,7 +211,7 @@ def get_contents_dir(node):
 
 def get_contents_file(node):
     if not node.rexists():
-        return ''
+        return b''
     fname = node.rfile().get_abspath()
     try:
         with open(fname, "rb") as fp:
diff --git a/src/engine/SCons/Tool/MSCommon/vc.py b/src/engine/SCons/Tool/MSCommon/vc.py
index 7c9eab55..53bd3977 100644
--- a/src/engine/SCons/Tool/MSCommon/vc.py
+++ b/src/engine/SCons/Tool/MSCommon/vc.py
@@ -245,7 +245,9 @@ def find_vc_pdir_vswhere(msvc_version):
     if os.path.exists(vswhere_path):
         sp = subprocess.Popen(vswhere_cmd, stdout=subprocess.PIPE, stderr=subprocess.PIPE)
         vsdir, err = sp.communicate()
-        vc_pdir = os.path.join(vsdir.rstrip(), 'VC')
+        vsdir = vsdir.decode("mbcs")
+        vsdir = vsdir.rstrip()
+        vc_pdir = os.path.join(vsdir, 'VC')
         return vc_pdir
     else:
         # No vswhere on system, no install info available
diff --git a/src/engine/SCons/Tool/qt.py b/src/engine/SCons/Tool/qt.py
index 5f99054f..77269a83 100644
--- a/src/engine/SCons/Tool/qt.py
+++ b/src/engine/SCons/Tool/qt.py
@@ -144,6 +144,8 @@ class _Automoc(object):
                 # c or fortran source
                 continue
             #cpp_contents = comment.sub('', cpp.get_text_contents())
+            if debug:
+                print("scons: qt: Getting contents of %s" % cpp)
             cpp_contents = cpp.get_text_contents()
             h=None
             for h_ext in header_extensions: