On 09-06-08 01:48 PM, Ronald Oussoren wrote:
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.
In this particular package, yes.. but not generally of course.
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).
Correct; that is what I thought. Tarek said "The encoding used is utf-8
since 2.6" .. for which I provided this counter-example (python-wifi-0.3.1).
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