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

[Marc-Andre Lemburg]

Marc-Andre Lemburg <mal at egenix.com> added the comment:

Éric Araujo wrote:
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> Éric Araujo <merwok at netwok.org> added the comment:
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> Definitely.  We can fix real bugs in distutils, but sometimes it’s best to avoid disruptive changes and let distutils with its buggy behavior and let the packaging module have the best behavior.

This is a real bug, since we agreed long ago that distutils should
read and write files using the UTF-8 encoding.

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nosy: +lemburg

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