Zbyszek Jędrzejewski-Szmek added the comment: At least for /etc/os-release, which is slated to replace /etc/fedora-release and other distribution specific files, the encoding in mandated to be UTF-8:
http://www.freedesktop.org/software/systemd/man/os-release.html All strings should be in UTF-8 format, and non-printable characters should not be used. ---------- nosy: +zbysz _______________________________________ Python tracker <rep...@bugs.python.org> <http://bugs.python.org/issue17429> _______________________________________ _______________________________________________ Python-bugs-list mailing list Unsubscribe: http://mail.python.org/mailman/options/python-bugs-list/archive%40mail-archive.com
