The previous fix r145315 seems to have broken python 2.6.2 on Windows users.

gclient_utils.py

Index: gclient_utils.py
diff --git a/gclient_utils.py b/gclient_utils.py
index e43577b67ccedc51d26b87f3883880e158d13565..34f3db84719e2013ae8168a147eeb4eea968dca7 100644
--- a/gclient_utils.py
+++ b/gclient_utils.py
@@ -77,12 +77,9 @@ class PrintableObject(object):
 
 
 def FileRead(filename, mode='rU'):
-  with codecs.open(filename, mode=mode, encoding='utf-8') as f:
-    content = f.read()
-    if mode.endswith('U'):
-      # codecs.open() has different behavior than open() on python 2.6.
-      return content.replace('\r\n', '\n')
-    return content
+  with open(filename, mode=mode) as f:
+    # codecs.open() has different behavior than open() on python 2.6.

[cmp, 2012/07/10 01:27:02]

since you're no longer calling codecs.open(), this comment seems misplaced.  my
assumption is that the comment was about the 'replace' call in the previous CL,
and that it's no longer relevant?

+    return f.read().decode('utf-8')
 
 
 def FileWrite(filename, content, mode='w'):