[New-bugs-announce] [issue13114] UnicodeDecodeError in command `register` due to using not ASCII chars in long_description

[Кирилл Кузьминых]

New submission from Кирилл Кузьминых <saikuz at mail.ru>:

Command `register` (and `check -r` too) raises the exception UnicodeDecodeError if the long_description (stored as unicode) contains not ASCII chars.
This is because the Docutils, called from Distutils, accepts only ASCII or Unicode. But Distutils passes to Docutils text as a `str` (ASCII or UTF-8).

PS: sorry for my English

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assignee: tarek
components: Distutils
files: trace.log
messages: 145007
nosy: Cykooz, eric.araujo, tarek
priority: normal
severity: normal
status: open
title: UnicodeDecodeError in command `register` due to using not ASCII chars in long_description
type: crash
versions: Python 2.7
Added file: http://bugs.python.org/file23327/trace.log

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