replace path placeholder even if it's stored in a wide string #4298
Description
Prefix placeholder can be stored in binary files as a wide string (wchar_t).
In such a case it's not replaced by conda.
I came across this problem when building wxWidgets that is using internally wide strings: UCS-2 on Windows and UCS-4 on Unix:
007c4f10 2f 00 00 00 6f 00 00 00 70 00 00 00 74 00 00 00 |/...o...p...t...|
007c4f20 2f 00 00 00 63 00 00 00 6f 00 00 00 6e 00 00 00 |/...c...o...n...|
007c4f30 64 00 00 00 61 00 00 00 2f 00 00 00 63 00 00 00 |d...a.../...c...|
007c4f40 6f 00 00 00 6e 00 00 00 64 00 00 00 61 00 00 00 |o...n...d...a...|
007c4f50 2d 00 00 00 62 00 00 00 6c 00 00 00 64 00 00 00 |-...b...l...d...|
007c4f60 2f 00 00 00 77 00 00 00 78 00 00 00 77 00 00 00 |/...w...x...w...|
007c4f70 69 00 00 00 64 00 00 00 67 00 00 00 65 00 00 00 |i...d...g...e...|
Perhaps conda could try to replace the placeholder in any of the popular encodings (UTF8, UTF16, UTF32)?