[Python-Dev] bdist_wininst

[Thomas Heller]

>>>>bdist_wininst has seen a lot of bug fixes and improvements, mostly by
>>>>Mark, partly by me.
>>>>I'd like to 'improve' the visual appearance, too.
>>>
>>>One improvement would be proper treatment of Unicode. Currently it
>>>doesn't seem to be possible to use unicode objects with umlauts in the
>>>arguments to distutils.core.setup(). Some of my Windows packages say
>>>"Author: Walter Dxf6rwald"

Walter, can you try out the attached patch?  It seems to work for me.
Both for unicode and ascii strings as author name, containing an umlaut.

Thanks,

Thomas

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