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Author	lemburg
Recipients	lemburg, loewis, tarek
Date	2008-04-07.19:49:37
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Message-id	<1207597778.66.0.180924076032.issue2562@psf.upfronthosting.co.za>
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Agreed, but any change will target the package authors who can easily upgrade their packages to use Unicode for e.g. names. If the change were to address distutils users, we'd have to be a lot more careful. In any case, if UTF-8 is the defacto standard used in older packages, then we should probably use that as fallback solution if the ASCII assumption doesn't work out: try: value = unicode(value) except UnicodeDecodeError: value = unicode(value, 'utf-8') value = value.encode('utf-8')

Agreed, but any change will target the package authors who can easily
upgrade their packages to use Unicode for e.g. names.

If the change were to address distutils users, we'd have to be a lot
more careful.

In any case, if UTF-8 is the defacto standard used in older packages,
then we should probably use that as fallback solution if the ASCII
assumption doesn't work out:

try:
    value = unicode(value)
except UnicodeDecodeError:
    value = unicode(value, 'utf-8')
value = value.encode('utf-8')

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Date	User	Action	Args
2008-04-07 19:49:38	lemburg	set	spambayes_score: 0.131153 -> 0.13115327 recipients: + lemburg, loewis, tarek
2008-04-07 19:49:38	lemburg	set	spambayes_score: 0.131153 -> 0.131153 messageid: <1207597778.66.0.180924076032.issue2562@psf.upfronthosting.co.za>
2008-04-07 19:49:38	lemburg	link	issue2562 messages
2008-04-07 19:49:37	lemburg	create