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r77717 | tarek.ziade | 2010-01-24 01:33:32 +0100 (Sun, 24 Jan 2010) | 1 line
Fixed #7748: now upload and register commands don't need to force the encoding anymore : DistributionMetada returns utf8 strings
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Library
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+- Issue #7748: Since unicode values are supported for some metadata options
+ in Distutils, the DistributionMetadata get_* methods will now return an utf-8
+ encoded string for them. This ensure that the upload and register commands
+ send the right values to PyPI without any error.
+
- Issue #1670765: Prevent email.generator.Generator from re-wrapping
headers in multipart/signed MIME parts, which fixes one of the sources of
invalid modifications to such parts by Generator.