[Distutils] PEP 517: Open questions around artifact export directories

Nathaniel Smith njs at pobox.com
Tue Jun 13 04:45:23 EDT 2017


On Tue, Jun 13, 2017 at 1:22 AM, Nathaniel Smith <njs at pobox.com> wrote:
> Though - we should probably mandate sometime/somewhere that the
> filenames in a wheel are always in UTF-8 and also that they follow
> some particular normalization (NFC?).

It looks like PEP 3131 says that Python identifiers get normalized to
NFKC while parsing, so using NFKC for wheel filenames (which often
include package/module names) probably makes sense as well.

-n

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