[Python-Dev] UnicodeDecodeError bug in distutils (original) (raw)

Ben Finney ben+python at benfinney.id.au
Fri Apr 3 02:25:57 CEST 2009

"Phillip J. Eby" <pje at telecommunity.com> writes:

However, there's currently no standard, as far as I know, for what encoding the PKG-INFO file should use.

Who would define such a standard? My vote goes for “default is UTF-8”.

Meanwhile, the 'register' command accepts Unicode, but is broken in handling it. […]

Unfortunately, this isn't fixable until there's a new 2.5.x release. For previous Python versions, both register and writepkginfo() accepted 8-bit strings and passed them on as-is, so the only workaround for this issue at the moment is to revert to Python 2.4 or less.

What is the prognosis on this issue? It's still hitting me in Python 2.5.4.

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