[issue2562] Cannot use non-ascii letters in disutils if setuptools is used.

[Martin v. Löwis]

Martin v. Löwis <martin at v.loewis.de> added the comment:

> If we do use Unicode, I think we might need an extra meta-data,
> "encoding", that would default to "utf8", and that could be used when
> the class needs to serialize the data in a file.

I don't think so. Whenever the data is written to a file, the file
format should specify the encoding.

Regards,
Martin

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