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

[Éric Araujo]

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

> pkginfo_utf8.patch: distutils uses UTF-8 to write PKG-INFO and
> .egg-info, instead of the locale encoding. It should be applied to
> 2.7, 3.2 and 3.3.

Okay.  I guess you’ll use codecs.open in 2.7; please make sure there is no bootstrapping issue for the build of CPython itself.

It would be a good thing to have non-ASCII in the PGK-INFO/METADATA files in the tests; it’s how we caught #12320.

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