[Distutils] Encoding of metadata?

[Tres Seaver]

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

Unless you want to inflict pain on future users, use UTF8.


Tres.
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