UnicodeDecodeError in easy_install with unicode characters in sdist when LANG=C #706
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As reported in the upstream bug, following the fix for #704, some packages (notably Sphinx, but any package that contains non-ascii filenames) will fail to cleanup after install with a UnicodeDecodeError in rmtree. It sounds like the recommended fix is to provide a platform-specific workaround to pass bytes to rmtree when on Python 2 and Linux. |
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…systemencoding is ascii, and let posixpath work its voodoo. Fixes #706.
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In investigating #704, I added a test which creates an sdist with unicode charecters in one of the filenames. Turns out this test is also failing on Linux when LANG=C.
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