[ python-Bugs-1076233 ] distutils.core.setup() with unicode arguments broken

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Bugs item #1076233, was opened at 2004-11-30 14:53
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Category: Distutils
Group: Python 2.4
Status: Open
Resolution: None
Priority: 5
Submitted By: Walter Dörwald (doerwalter)
Assigned to: A.M. Kuchling (akuchling)
Summary: distutils.core.setup() with unicode arguments broken

Initial Comment:
When using unicode arguments for distutils.core.setup() 
running setup.py breaks with the following exception:

Traceback (most recent call last):
...
\Lib\distutils\command\sdist.py", line 430, in 
make_release_tree
    self.distribution.metadata.write_pkg_info(base_dir)
  File "C:\Programme\Python24\Lib\distutils\dist.py", line 
1047, in write_pkg_info
    pkg_info.write('Author: %s\n' % self.get_contact() )
UnicodeEncodeError: 'ascii' codec can't encode 
character u'\xf6' in position 16: ordinal not in range(128)

Changing the system default encoding to iso-8859-1 
works around this problem.

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>Comment By: A.M. Kuchling (akuchling)
Date: 2004-12-09 13:59

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Encoding was never considered.  PEP 314 is an updated
version of PEP 241; it should specify an encoding (probably
UTF-8 is the most reasonable choice).



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Comment By: Thomas Heller (theller)
Date: 2004-11-30 15:13

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I'm unusure about the allowed encoding in PKG-INFO, and I
cannot find anything in PEP 241. Andrew, since you are
listed as the author, can you comment?

bdist_wininst does accept unicode strings, and that may be
the reason that walter expects this to work for sdist also...

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