"Phillip J. Eby" <p...@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? My vote goes for “default is UTF-8”. > Meanwhile, the 'register' command accepts Unicode, but is broken in > handling it. […] > > Unfortunately, this isn't fixable until there's a new 2.5.x release. > For previous Python versions, both register and write_pkg_info() > accepted 8-bit strings and passed them on as-is, so the only > workaround for this issue at the moment is to revert to Python 2.4 > or less. What is the prognosis on this issue? It's still hitting me in Python 2.5.4. -- \ “Everything you read in newspapers is absolutely true, except | `\ for that rare story of which you happen to have first-hand | _o__) knowledge.” —Erwin Knoll | Ben Finney _______________________________________________ Python-Dev mailing list Python-Dev@python.org http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-dev Unsubscribe: http://mail.python.org/mailman/options/python-dev/archive%40mail-archive.com
