[Distutils] Encoding of metadata?

Andreas Jung lists at zopyx.com
Sat Mar 8 08:35:45 CET 2008



--On 8. März 2008 18:26:54 +1100 Ben Finney 
<bignose+hates-spam at benfinney.id.au> wrote:

> Andreas Jung <lists at zopyx.com> writes:
>
>> what's the recommendation for the non-ascii world?
>
> I'm not sure what body you're expecting a recommendation from.

Strange question. I expect the metadata having a clear and well-defined 
encoding in order to deal with it in a reasonable way within a unicode
application. Guessing or smelling encoding is the _wrong_ way.

-aj
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