Hi! I'd like to know if anything changed since 2011 with regard to using unicode as a value of "long_description" argument to setuptools/distutils setup function? The problem was described by Carl Meyer in 2011 here https://github.com/pypa/virtualenv/issues/201#issuecomment-3145690 – "The initial error is on reading from the file containing non-ASCII (docs/news.txt in our case). This part is easily fixable by switching from open(...) to codecs.open(..., encoding="UTF-8"). But then you get an encoding error on the output side. The usual way to fix this would be to explicitly encode the string to bytes in the desired encoding before output, e.g. long_description = long_description.encode("UTF-8"). We can't do that for long-description in setup.py, though, because distutils rfc822-escapes it internally, and that requires string-only methods (split). So long-description must be a string (unicode), it can't be encoded bytes. Attempts to change the default encoding of sys.stdout are pointless, as in the installation case long-description isn't written to stdout, it's written to a file." Btw, in what situation does long_description get written to sys.stdout? Regards, Piotr Dobrogost