Re: [Distutils] Unicode in distutils meta-data

2008-09-03 Thread Tarek Ziadé
Tarek Ziadé wrote: > > Hello, > > I would like to summarize here http://bugs.python.org/issue2562. > ... > Hello, Just a quick note to say that my patch has been integrated to Python trunk with the help of MAL, So this bug is fixed for the 2.7 series, (doesn't concern 3.x) If you have acce

Re: [Distutils] Unicode in distutils meta-data

2008-04-07 Thread Andreas Jung
--On 7. April 2008 10:32:14 +0200 Tarek Ziadé <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: My proposal here would be to add a 'encoding' field in the metadata that defaults to 'utf8', and that would let people explicitely +1 Andreas pgp1ZKEy9JSxh.pgp Description: PGP signature

[Distutils] Unicode in distutils meta-data

2008-04-07 Thread Tarek Ziadé
Hello, I would like to summarize here http://bugs.python.org/issue2562. Currently, distutils does not allows the usage of Unicode for some meta-data fields that should be able to use it. These fields are: - author - maintainer - description - long_description For instance, if you use u"Barnabé