[issue17420] bdist_wininst does not play well with unicode descriptions

Serhiy Storchaka added the comment: Python 2.7 is no longer supported. -- nosy: +serhiy.storchaka resolution: -> out of date stage: -> resolved status: open -> closed ___ Python tracker

[issue17420] bdist_wininst does not play well with unicode descriptions

Changes by Éric Araujo mer...@netwok.org: -- assignee: - eric.araujo components: +Distutils nosy: +eric.araujo, tarek ___ Python tracker rep...@bugs.python.org http://bugs.python.org/issue17420 ___

[issue17420] bdist_wininst does not play well with unicode descriptions

New submission from Sergio Callegari: When creating an installer with bdist_wininst, any unicode characters in the description and long_description fields get mangled when running the installer. -- messages: 184172 nosy: Sergio.Callegari priority: normal severity: normal status: open

[issue17420] bdist_wininst does not play well with unicode descriptions

Martin v. Löwis added the comment: Would you like to work on a patch? -- nosy: +loewis ___ Python tracker rep...@bugs.python.org http://bugs.python.org/issue17420 ___ ___

[issue17420] bdist_wininst does not play well with unicode descriptions

Sergio Callegari added the comment: On 14/03/2013 18:15, Martin v. Löwis wrote: Martin v. Löwis added the comment: Would you like to work on a patch? -- nosy: +loewis ___ Python tracker rep...@bugs.python.org http://bugs.python.org/issue17420

[issue17420] bdist_wininst does not play well with unicode descriptions

Martin v. Löwis added the comment: I'd like to, but I really have no clue on bdist_wininst That's perfectly fine. If people make feature requests, it's often uncertain whether they lack time or knowledge, or are merely to shy/uncertain to propose a patch. So somebody else needs to volunteer to