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

Tarek Ziadé ziade.tarek at gmail.com
Fri Apr 3 10:46:56 CEST 2009

On Fri, Apr 3, 2009 at 2:25 AM, Ben Finney <ben+python at benfinney.id.au> wrote:

"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?

PEP 376 where we can explain that all files in egg-info should be in a specific encoding

 My vote goes for “default is UTF-8”.

+1

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

how so ?

Tarek

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