When creating an installer with bdist_wininst, any unicode characters in the description and long_description fields get mangled when running the installer.
On 14/03/2013 18:15, Martin v. Löwis wrote: > Martin v. Löwis added the comment: > > Would you like to work on a patch? > > ---------- > nosy: +loewis > > _______________________________________ > Python tracker <report@bugs.python.org> > <http://bugs.python.org/issue17420> > _______________________________________ I'd like to, but I really have no clue on bdist_wininst since I develop on Linux and only occasionally I need to package something so that it can be installed in Win. In my linux machine which is ubuntu based bdist_ininst does not even work since some piece of it is apparently not installed in debian :-( Sergio
> I'd like to, but I really have no clue on bdist_wininst That's perfectly fine. If people make feature requests, it's often uncertain whether they lack time or knowledge, or are merely to shy/uncertain to propose a patch. So somebody else needs to volunteer to work on this.
