Patch #1167716: Support Unicode filenames in mkpath. Fixes #1121494.
Will backport to 2.4.
diff --git a/Misc/NEWS b/Misc/NEWS
index f5a2526..765565c 100644
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@@ -193,6 +193,8 @@
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+- Bug #1121494: distutils.dir_utils.mkpath now accepts Unicode strings.
+
 - Bug #1178484: Return complete lines from codec stream readers
   even if there is an exception in later lines, resulting in
   correct line numbers for decoding errors in source code.