[issue9561] distutils: set encoding to utf-8 for input and output files

[Éric Araujo]

Éric Araujo <merwok at netwok.org> added the comment:

>> Okay.  I guess you’ll use codecs.open in 2.7
> Oh, Python 2.7... DistributionMetadata of distutils encodes most
> values to byte strings (get_xxx() methods calls self._encode_field).
I forgot that.  No change is needed in 2.7.

> I checked, there is not bootstrap issue.
I was talking about bootstrapping if a change to use codecs was made.

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