Ben Finney <ben+pyt...@benfinney.id.au> writes: > "Phillip J. Eby" <p...@telecommunity.com> writes: > > > 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.
Any word on this? Is there an open bug tracker issue with more information? Who's working on this? -- \ “If sharing a thing in no way diminishes it, it is not rightly | `\ owned if it is not shared.” —Saint Augustine | _o__) | 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