[Python-Dev] UnicodeDecodeError bug in distutils

[Tarek Ziadé]

On Fri, Apr 3, 2009 at 2:25 AM, Ben Finney <ben+python at benfinney.id.au> wrote:
> "Phillip J. Eby" <pje at telecommunity.com> writes:
>
>> However, there's currently no standard, as far as I know, for what
>> encoding the PKG-INFO file should use.
>
> Who would define such a standard?

PEP 376 where we can explain that all files in egg-info should be in a
specific encoding

>  My vote goes for “default is UTF-8”.

+1

>
>> Meanwhile, the 'register' command accepts Unicode, but is broken in
>> handling it. […]

how so ?

Tarek