[Distutils] Encoding of metadata?

[Andreas Jung]

Hi,

are there any recommendations or constraints for the encoding of
package metadata - both for PyPI and the setuptools internals?
Although most of us write their metadata in English, we do have author 
names with accented characters...it's unclear if iso-8859-15 or utf-8 is 
preferred in this case (or even unicode strings)...what's the 
recommendation for
the non-ascii world?

Andreas

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