[Catalog-sig] New PEP, pre-submission RFC

[Richard Jones]

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On Fri, 29 Apr 2005 07:59 pm, Gerhard Haering wrote:
> For those who have names with characters not in ASCII, is that possible?
> do we just define that all text is UTF-8?

At the moment, the web interface / database is all UTF-8, so it therefore 
assumes that submissions are UTF-8. I guess we should actually document 
that :)

The one weak link of the current UTF-8-ness is the setup.py file, as you've 
identified. In most cases that'll be the default encoding for Python code 
(whatever that is, I should look it up ;) but in some cases it'll be 
different. Regardless, we really need to UTF-8 encode the submission of the 
setup.py-derived metadata to the webserver so there's no incorrect decoding 
done at its end.


> Not that I really need it, but would this be the right time to think
> about optional description fields for other languages, too, like
>
> Description-fr, Description-de for French and German ones?

Eeek :)


    Richard
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