[Distutils] The Wheel specification and Unicode filenames

[Paul Moore]

On 21 February 2013 15:27, Daniel Holth <dholth at gmail.com> wrote:
> I will clarify the spec to include utf-8 as the filename encoding. The zip
> format allows it (set general purpose bit 11) but a lot of programs do not
> understand it. Python's zipfile supports utf-8 in zip.

7-Zip supports UTF-8 on Windows. Info-Zip (command line) does not, but
hey, that's the Windows console for you... Windows 7's native support
for zip files doesn't seem to.

Paul