On 8 Jun, 2009, at 10:36, Sridhar Ratnakumar wrote:
On 09-06-08 02:58 AM, Tarek Ziadé wrote:
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> * Should the PEP specify the encoding of text-files? PEP314
doesn't seem to specify the encoding of PKG-INFO files, which can
cause problems when a field contains data that isn't ASCII.
The encoding used is utf-8 since 2.6. I think we should rather
update
PEP 314, and mention it in the upcoming PEP 345 as well,
For the python-wifi-0.3.1 package, I noticed that PKG-INFO uses
'latin1' encoding.
Not quite. My best guess is that it doesn't use any encoding, it just
dumps the bytes in the string you specified in the PKG-INFO file (at
least for python2, I haven't checked what distutils does in python3).
Ronald
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