diff -r 8ddd4c618b48 Lib/distutils/tests/test_sdist.py
--- a/Lib/distutils/tests/test_sdist.py	Sat Oct 29 10:40:20 2011 +0300
+++ b/Lib/distutils/tests/test_sdist.py	Sat Oct 29 16:42:13 2011 -0700
@@ -166,6 +166,27 @@
         self.assertEqual(result, ['fake-1.0.tar', 'fake-1.0.tar.gz'])
 
     @unittest.skipUnless(zlib, "requires zlib")
+    @unittest.skipIf((find_executable('tar') is None or
+            find_executable('gzip') is None), "requires tar and gzip")
+    def test_unicode_metadata_tgz(self):
+        """Unicode name and version should not break building tgz"""
+
+        # now building a sdist
+        dist, cmd = self.get_cmd({'name': u'fake', 'version': u'1.0'})
+
+        # creating a gztar then a tar
+        cmd.formats = ['gztar']
+        cmd.ensure_finalized()
+        cmd.run()
+
+        # making sure we have two files
+        dist_folder = join(self.tmp_dir, 'dist')
+        result = os.listdir(dist_folder)
+        self.assertEqual(result, ['fake-1.0.tar.gz'] )
+
+        os.remove(join(dist_folder, 'fake-1.0.tar.gz'))
+
+    @unittest.skipUnless(zlib, "requires zlib")
     def test_add_defaults(self):
 
         # http://bugs.python.org/issue2279